Category: Poems about Relationships

Let’s fall in love
Like we never loved before
Nor learned not to do so ever again

Context (if you’re interested):

It is based on “y / n” in “You Are Here” by Dawn Lanuza.

It’s without twists and turns
That I approach
Meeting you

Context (if you’re interested):

The idea of this poem just popped into my head one night.

After all of these years,
It feels like you are still right
Here by my side

Context (if you’re interested):

This is based on the Chinese song, “Night in Ulaanbaatar”, a song about missing one’s love while traveling only to feel their shadow around them.

You already wrote
Your book. I’m just the guy you
Needed to insert.

Context (if you’re interested):

This is based on a poem I read while in Manila about being the player in someone else’s romantic script.

Walls of our old home
Full of so many stories
Left there unfinished

Context (if you’re interested):

This poem is about the nostalgia of looking back at an apartment of a relationship that didn’t quite work out.

I’ll always be here
To patch whatever was lost
Back onto your heart

(The story behind this poem; only read this part if you’d like to hear my personal story. Skip if it you’d prefer to glean your own meaning from the poem: I wrote this poem to help me vent my emotions about a specific dispute that happened. I am trying to convey how humans tend to event more and more arguments to solidify their initial impression in their mind even as more facts made it clear their position was wrong.)

This one is based on a poem I read while in Manila about someone unwilling to deal with a break up.

I am always caught
Between needing to talk and
To be left alone

Blast from the past:

Delight, then, sorrow,
The worker reaps a bounty
For his employer