A Poem For You... | Teen Ink
  1. Home
  2. Poetry
  3. Free Verse
  4. A Poem For You...

A Poem For You...

June 27, 2012
By ninja2014 SILVER, Homer, New York
More by this author
ninja2014 SILVER, Homer, New York
5 articles 1 photo 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
life is crazy, just go ahead and love it anyways!

View profile

Here I am... another night
Writing another love poem
Painting ink in chicken scratch
With crumpled papers on the floor

Scratch that line, it won't do
Another rhyme using "you"
Can't forget to use my heart
Not good enough... I'll restart

The clock is shifting time
Hours don't matter to me
I will find a way
To make this perfect
My fingers can ache
With ghost-white knuckles
My eyes can turn red
Still, my ambition lives

I shared a kiss today
The most beautiful of all
Then I took you away
Even more... we fall
Too many words again
And I will not use three
Cliche mistakes; red pen
I need to make him see

I can fail one million times
(I will try one million more)
Maybe not on this night
But one day I will write
A masterpiece so true...
Without using... "I love you"

© Rebecca B., Marietta, GA

Post a comment
Submit your own

Similar Articles

Previous Next
Poetry
To a Brother Growing Up
By imperfection GOLD
Gilroy, California
imperfection GOLD, Gilroy, California
17 articles 9 photos 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Dream as though you&#039;ll live forever, live as though you&#039;ll die today.&quot;<br /> ~James Dean (1931-1955), American Motion Picture Actor, symbol of rebellion

View profile
Poetry
Motley Crue: I really hear you
By Arbys GOLD
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Arbys GOLD, Dobbs Ferry, New York
15 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.&quot;Edgar Allan Poe<br /> &quot;A dream doesn&#039;t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~Colin Powell&quot; ~ Colin Powell<br /> &quot;Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom <br /> &quot;A poem is never finished, only abandoned.&quot;-Paul Valery

View profile
Poetry
Alice
By Keasbey GOLD
La Habra Heights, California
Keasbey GOLD, La Habra Heights, California
12 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I will no longer pray on my knees, to a god who&#039;s left me so many times. I will no longer pray on my knees, to a god who won&#039;t answer my call.&quot;

View profile
Poetry
Oh, let me be
By Forgotten_and_Lost GOLD
Coffeyville, Kansas
Forgotten_and_Lost GOLD, Coffeyville, Kansas
13 articles 0 photos 2 comments
View profile
Poetry
Lost now found
By BarrelRacer GOLD
Huber Heights, Ohio
BarrelRacer GOLD, Huber Heights, Ohio
10 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Bring The Challenge or Eat My Dust.

View profile
Poetry
leap
By carreyelaine GOLD
Arlington, Tennessee
carreyelaine GOLD, Arlington, Tennessee
12 articles 4 photos 1 comment
View profile

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.