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What I Want But Can't Have

June 9, 2016
By portlandbooknerd BRONZE, Bend, Oregon
portlandbooknerd BRONZE, Bend, Oregon
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I want my hand held

My neck kissed

To be hugged from behind

To feel loved

 

I want to travel

Not all around the world

But just to one city

A city I call home

 

I want to laugh uncontrollably

Smile until my cheeks hurt

Love until my heart swells

To feel as if I belong

 

But I can't have it all

I have to rot here

For what feels like an eternity

Until I can be released from this prision of hell


The author's comments:

I wrote this piece when I have expressing to myself how loneliness felt, and still feels, to me. Even currently I struggle with it, but since I wrote this I don't feel it as often. I want people who read this to connect with it in a way that is like, 'Woah, I understand. feel like this sometimes. Maybe I am not the only one...?'

 

It is not that I want anyone to struggle with loneliness, but I feel that loneliness is a very pressing and urgent matter in this time and age. Overall I want my readers to understand that is is okay to want something, to feel lonely, but to also okay to release all the emotions and thoughts. No one should keep it all to themselves, and if someone doesn't wish to speak to an actual person about it that they can put it into words. To put the unimaginable into the written word.


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