Afraid to Love
Oh, if I had a star to shine
For every broken dream of mine
The whole night sky would turn to day
And all my troubles melt away....
I love you more than life itself
But I'm afraid to love.
My heart is like the fragile wings
Of a tiny little dove.
I'm scared to get too close.
I feel that I can't win.
You'll love me for a little while
Then you'll set me free again.
I've lived so long on hopes and dreams
I don't know what to do.
I don't think I can trust my heart,
For it belongs to you.
I know you'll only hurt me
Yet, I still keep running back.
Between the paths of our hearts
There's a worn and beaten track.
You've got my heart held on a string.
Its breaking right in two.
Enough belongs to me -to hurt-
The rest belongs to you.
I know that somewhere in your heart
There is a place for me.
I just don't know how to find it
And there's no way to make you see.
I can only hope that someday
You'll wake up and you'll find,
That while my heart belongs to yours,
Yours, too, belongs to mine.
Copyright © Mistycalpoet October 2010.
Beautiful...poetry at its very best :)
This is magnificent!! Simply superb Misty!!! Love it so much.
Been there done that. Beautiful work.
Such a sad song...I know the melody. Dorothy A Poet Who Loves To Sing
Such a smooth flow in with the rhythm and rhyme and so many are afraid to love in case of hurt. A sensitive and bittersweet poem of love or perhaps loss. The last stanza rounds the poem off beautifully.
This is poetry at it's most beautiful - both poignant and hopeful. A wonderful mixture of fear and longing, rhymed to perfection. :) k xxx
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....I can relate...though I'm not afraid to love, and not afraid to fail at it...it does get tiring and you begin to question the what and why's
beautiful flow describing a very rough ride.
Sheer brilliance! A bright star in the firmament. Simply stated about the complications of the heart. Recommended!