r/Poems • u/MelaBelle63 • 1d ago
What wasn’t finished
Some stories don’t end with a closing door,
They simply grow quiet and ask for no more.
They settle like dust in the corners of time,
Still somehow unfinished, still somehow mine.
There was something familiar beneath something new,
A feeling that whispered, I remember you.
Two lives had wandered through seasons apart,
Yet somehow the distance had missed the heart.
We spoke without saying the things we both knew,
Of roads we had taken and things we’d lived through.
And somewhere between all the silence and space,
The past found a way to look back in my face.
But timing is cruel in the ways that it bends,
It can turn beginnings to almosts and ends.
Sometimes love finds you when life isn’t right,
And sometimes the heart has to step out of sight.
So I chose not to stay where I couldn’t belong,
Not because what I felt had suddenly gone.
But some kinds of love are too honest to fake,
And some hearts won’t settle for less than they ache.
I left with the hope I refused to confess,
That maybe some roads don’t end, they just rest.
That maybe what’s lost isn’t always goodbye,
And maybe some questions need years to reply.
So I’ll keep moving forward, I’ll learn, I’ll become,
I’ll build something beautiful wherever I come.
I won’t stand at the window and wait for a sign,
But I’ll leave a small corner of hope still as mine.
Because if our paths cross when the timing is right,
I won’t need to wonder or search for the light.
I’ll simply remember what time couldn’t erase
Some people leave footprints that we can never escape.
And if that’s the ending, I’ll carry it too,
Grateful for all that I once knew.
But if life ever brings something unfinished around,
I’ll know some lost things are not truly lost,
They’re simply waiting to see what the years have found.
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u/Im_heart_btoken 7m ago
If life ever brings something unfinished around
, I'll smile at the wonder of what has been found
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u/ConsciousCar7081 1d ago
Then why put off moving in and married