I Mean More Than I Say Poem by Jazmin OK...
I Mean More Than I Say
I mean more than I say
You know that?
You know that everything I say
Signifies something
And if you knew,
It would mean something
To you
Like it does to me
You meant more to me
Than I did
To you
And to me
I played hard to get
You played hard to forget
Love’s a game
A game for you
Real for me.
I meant more than I said.
You meant less than you said.
I guess I’ll never be
Over you
I’ll guess we’ll never be
Together again.
You made me happy
For a short while
Until you broke
Our bond
Was I not good enough?
For you
For me
Did I say something wrong?
Confusing?
Should I ask for forgiveness?
Love?
Or is it you that should be apologizing
For the silence
That I don’t understand
The silence
That means so much more
Than you said to me.
But I mean more than I say
I always will.
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4/26/2024 6:13:26 AM # 1.0.0.1119
I really like this poem as a poem. I also realize it expresses some very immediate and painful experiences for you, nothing can match the disappointment of sensing the hope and wonder another person inspires in you but does not reciprocate. (Who invented unrequited love? Why, why, why? echoes down the ages of humanity.) But as a poem you are in full command of your message, and express it without sentimentality or preaching or shrill pleading. That's what makes the poem so moving, it gets inside the reader's mind and grows larger in meaning as they connect it to their memories. You wrote this back in February and I think the title captures a quality of your subsequent writing I have come to recognize - You don't try to say everything you think or feel (which would be a fool's errand, in any case): you trust your images to convey unstated meanings, and they do far better than more words would. Too many words clutter a poem, and weaken the impact of the really eloquent images. I am sti; ; learning this lesson myself - one of my best friends here at PoemHunter, Fabrizio Frosini, who lives in fabled Florence, keeps reminding me of my tendency to overwrite, or make things too obvious. In your POET'S NOTES you aptly identify what we should aim for - not WORDS, WORDS, WORDS (as Hamlet put it) , but a few DEEP words. And the people who are sensitive and on your wave-length, the people who ultimately will matter most to you, will see the depth in (your) words. Amen to that, right? !
Wow, thank you so much! Yes, I believe in unstated meanings. Probably so much that mostly people do not 'get' what I am trying to say. I do wish for friends to see the depth in my words. Thanks again for your feedback :)