On Love: A Suite of Poems
A suite of poems by Rihanna Purandah in celebration and acknowledgment of a month of love.
Family Love
You may have seen this in different varieties
Hardships, laidback, clarities
But I have experienced the brutal hardships
Constant criticism, judgements, focus on mistakes
Constantly doing something wrong in their eyes
Until you realize, it comes from the heart
When they want to see you thrive
An succeed to a level they didn’t
Its like a legacy, held at your shoulders
Expectations, crashing on you.
You want to stop, retaliate but
You hold strong, wanting to make them proud
Be something they wished they were.
Unrequited Love
One feels one way but the other doesn’t
a feeling that everyone wishes to avoid
But hard to get out when you’ve already fell deep.
Constantly kept a arms length, hidden from the world
To protect our peace, the peace we cherish.
But you never stop, until you breaks you down, piece by piece
Till your aching, losing motivation, self-esteem, tired
And over it all. But you stay anyway.
hoping for something to bloom.
You wait, wait, and wait, but at what cost
Blame Blame Blame
When you love someone deep, your taken advantage of
When you have a sensitive heart, taken advantage of
When you’re too caring, taken advantage of.
The constant cycle of being taken advantage of,
But at the cost of what.
Blame Blame Blame,
When things don’t go their way but you constantly stay,
To be supportive, caring, loving.
Instead of it being viewed as a helpful gesture but its turned,
As something you’ve done wrong, in their eyes.
Constant fight, constant disagreements, constant conflict.
The never ending lasting….
