A Love Not Returned, A Heart That Still Yearns... Poem by Elizabeth Sheaffer

A Love Not Returned, A Heart That Still Yearns...

Rating: 5.0


Lying alone on this cold winter's eve
My thoughts of you seem never to cease.
O, how I long for the feel of your skin!
What I wouldn't give to hear your voice again!
The sound of my name as it passes those lips...
Those lips sealing mine with a passionate kiss...
This and much more to you I would give.
But I know it won't happen, as long as I live...
Why must I long for a love unobtainable?
Why must these feelings be so unassailable?
You know of my feelings, and still you care not.
It seems so unfair to be cast such a lot.
You torment me so; my love just grows stronger...
I wonder if I can take this for much longer...

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Felicia Fortine 01 January 2007

wow is the only word i can say to describe what i thought of this poem i enjoyed reading it *Felicia*

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Jim Foulk 01 January 2007

a very beautiful, well writen poem that really does come from the heart.

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Bob Gibson 28 April 2008

Written from your heart Elizabeth, men to, have a one sided love!

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Rani Turton 20 April 2008

All the ruminations of a one-sided love have been well-expressed. The pain is tangible.

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Elliott Bernard 29 August 2007

malarkey and sentimental dross. nothing interesting with language going on here...

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Not a member No 4 03 February 2007

An intensely and poetically expressed scenario that too many of us are too well acquainted with. That makes it no less painful. And a cure isn't guaranteed. Young love cuts deep. Excellent writing.

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Buried Alive 02 January 2007

I am beginning to think we all suffer the same problems. You are a romantic, but love is cruel, and fickle, my heart's been broken too many times, there's nothing left of it to yearn. I like your poem!

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