The idea for this poem just kind of popped into my mind while working on a American History study guide (go figure--I just really didn't want to do that study guide). After writing it, I noticed that it followed the general idea of the Phantom of the Opera storyline, so I decided to post it and see if I got any feedback. I would love, love, LOVE to get some comments, may they be wonderful and self-esteem boosting (hint hint) or constructive criticism, anything is welcome. This is the first thing I've ever posted, so please take that into consideration (I have low self-confidence anyway and any flames may send me into the darkness of depressive oblivion). Please, please, please read and review and I promise I'll love you forever (or at least for the next half-hour). So without further ado, the poem!


To Be Loved

Alone in darkness I lie,

Living solely on my fears,

My passions,

My desperation.

No acceptance, only banishment

From the only world I have ever known.

God, too, shuns me.

For, if He loved me,

Would He not hear my silent pleas for tenderness?

For salvation?

For love?

He must not be listening,

To the cries of one of His children.

Am I of no consequence

And therefore unworthy of His attentions?

As He caresses and nurtures

Each of His children with a loving hand,

But I am merely a weed in His garden of roses.

I am not deserving His succour,

His compassion,

His love.

Others yearn for nothing.

They take His unadulterated love for granted,

They drink in the love surrounding them freely

And unabashedly,

Yet I am given none of it.

I have given my love,

And oh, how I have given it.

Pouring forth my very soul for those I care for,

Only to receive their spite,

Their disgust,

Their hatred.

Will it never be my turn to know love?

Still I strive for the light,

Painfully holding on

To what can never be.

And as I sit here in my bitterness,

My anguish,

My unrequited solitude,

I realize what a blessing it must be,

To be loved.


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