' How Do I Reach You? Poem by Linda Ori

It's difficult to hold inside This flood of raw emotion Rachel Ann Butler

I would die a thousand deaths To think you never knew Just how much you mean to me............. But how do I reach you? yea agreed with your idea.. there are hundreds of hurdles, like feeling, thoughts, worries, dreams, emotions and much more things making us away from each other and sure I really support your idea that..to reach to some one..we have to face hudreds time death... love this poem..how sweetly written..liked and love it..10/10

Your stylishly penned and intensely personal poem has such universality. How many lovers share your dilemma? Remember Viola in Twelfth Night? 'She never told her love, but let concealment like a worm in the bud, feed on her damasked cheek.' I lived with a man I loved for 27 years, bore him three children, yet never told my love. Why have we so little confidence, despite our inner knowing. Did our parents spoil us, or is it just that we tried too hard to please. This is a fine poem with an honest heart and a brilliant final stanza. Love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

That, sweetheart, hits the nail right on the head. I remember when Ez proposed to me; (me being the eternal runner-awayer from commitment) : he said something like, I know that if I asked you to marry me that you'd run a million miles, but would you spend the rest of your life with me? There's a balance to be struck, perhaps, and the agony of knowing where to strike it is perfectly encapsulated here. t x

Finding ways to convey the emotions to the adored one is always difficult and one remaines in the state of confusion unless and untill those emotions are spilled. Another state of mind encroaches that what would be the reaction of the concerned party? So all these are rather natural thougths that overwhelm a human being in such state. Best Wishes Naseer

This poem still touches a chord after all these years.Well done Linda.

A sense of overwhelming emotion and no way of getting to or through to the object of such intense affection.... It's a dire strait to be in... convincingly, powerfully and lyrically portrayed as always.... xxx

Linda how saddeningly beautiful. So much depth to the one wanting only to be able to love the other. How wonderfully expressed.

I loved your approch. God bless you.

I live in indecision - in limbo as shipwreck