These two were written recently after listening to a friend that had been going through some troubling times in her relationship. It's hard for me to know the right thing to say but I think someone to listen is sometimes the best thing you can do.
The basic facts are that she still loves the guy but needs change. He won't talk and in the background a long time friend has confessed his love for her- nice timing, not! Tried to put all this down in the first poem...

Losing & Hoping

The echoing silence of our discontent
Emanate through this room
A distrust of our feelings for the thought
We are ending too soon
How many nights, sleepless
Restless, lonely nights
Have I spent wasted to find
You’re not willing to fight
Youth they say
Is wasted on the young
Mine is being wasted waiting to know
If you’re the one
Shadowy figures take on the most
Respectable form
Moments past, unrequited love
Leaving relationships torn
A feeble request, I feel is not too much
To ask
Is talk to me, please, or I fear
We will be lost in the past
Absence they say
Makes the heart grow fonder
But alas, my love
It has only taught ours to wander
Oceans apart, the season of joy
At our door
For us I would think
There will be no joy at all
There shall be a time
Where I will mourn for the loss
But I will think of the happiness
The first time our paths crossed
When one door closes, another they say
Opens
‘I wish for you my best’
Will be my last words spoken



Joshua Tree

Sadness at times gives the most vivid of views
Smiling in the face of the hurt that breaks you
Many small things that bunch together and cumulate
Turn into tears that can release and help germinate
New thoughts and ideas that were lost in the past
Re-occurring once again but this time they will last
For the seeds that were sown in days gone by
Were not fertilized or watered by the tears from your eyes
Now these small seedlings are strong and break free
Of the earth that was holding them back needlessly
Finally seeing the first light of their days
They will now strengthen and blossom through endless sunrays
I may not at times say the wisest of things
But all I have tried is to give your seeds wings
Often we make bad decisions on our own
So it is good to know at these times, we are never alone.

Probably two of my favourite poems that I have written. TYML was written in years & years ago, and pretty much says I am sick of meeting people that will not be with me through the hard times. It also shows a little lack of hope that I feel from time to time.
The second one was written only a year or so ago when meeting a new girl hoping that maybe this time i would actually open up to this one.. Definitely optimistic here!

TO YOU MY LOVE

Suffering is a state of mind
My life, my love is now divine
The woes of death have returned
Turn around and watch me burn
The secret life I leave behind
Will not change my unclean mind
A righteous life, I have not lead
I can not get this out my head
Relish in the thoughts of past
Journey into what will last
My life, my love I leave with you
Returning I will be untrue
The caring suffering of my friends
To you, that I will make amends
The fears that I can never face
Will be the end of my race
Suffering is a state of mind
To you, my love I never will find



WAITING HOPE

To internally, blissfully, surrender to one
Or am I intent to surrender to none
Do I open myself for happiness to find
Is my distrust of love leaving me blind
To what do I fear, am I running alone
Apprehension in me, the source unknown
O why, O why, constant questions I ask
My true inner feelings I constantly mask
Patience a virtue, an unnerving new friend
Please don’t make you my love, right through to the end
Will I let the window of hope open up
Let the healing winds of love fill my cup
Challenges, decisions, am I fit for the task
Am I here for the end game, will the winds truly last
I wait unconsciously for the feeling to come
To internally, blissfully, surrender to one

I'm going to put in some poems I wrote quite a while ago but still have relevance for me today as I go through the usual relationship troubles as we all do...

WARNING

Syncopated rhythms
My mind a constant beat
Run around the mill
My life’s a thorough thrill
Masses and clashes
Confrontation at every corner
My life is ending
How can I warn her

Authority at my back
Got to keep from looking grim
Mission: Receive the goods
My terrorists move in
I find I trip out
Whatever have I done
Things are looking desperate
How can I warn her

Undefined borders
Of space and of time
The only real borders
Are of the heart and of the mind
Soon my time is passing
For I am not everlasting
Extenuating circumstances
How can I warn her




LIFE GOES ON

Spinning and spinning the world away
There goes another dream
There goes another day
Thoughtless accounts of
Months gone by
Thinking of where and
When I shall die
Memories linger as life
Goes on
Wishing only to know
What went wrong
My flagellant past
Reminds me of my future
Secret lies leave nothing
To ponder
My journey ends as it begun
Crying and crying as
Life must go on