If you haven’t heard of Lang Leav, she in an international best-selling author. While her poems perfectly capture the experience of love, reading her poems are also an experience in and of themselves. Here are a few of my favorites.
1.Soul Mates
SOUL MATES
By LANG LEAV
I don’t know how it is your are so
Familiar to me-or why it feels less
Like I am getting to know you and
More as though I am remembering who
You are. How every smile, every
Whisper bring me closer to the
Impossible conclusion that I have
Know you before, I have love you
Before-in another time, a different
Place-some other existence.
2. Wishing Stars
Wishing Stars
I still search
for you in crowds,
in empty fields
and soaring clouds.
In city lights
and passing cars,
on winding roads
and wishing stars.
I wonder where
you could be now,
for years I’ve not said
your name out loud.
And longer since
I called you mine-
time has passed
for you and I.
But I have learnt
to live without,
I do not mind-
I still love you anyhow.
_ Lang Leav
3.Love Lost
Love Lost
There is one who you belong to,
Whose love-there is no song for.
And though you know it’s wrongful,
There is someone else you long for.
Your heart was once a vessel,
It was filled up to the brim;
Until the day he left you,
Now everything sings of him.
Of the two who came to love you,
To one your heart, you gave.
He is in all the stars above you-
In the love who came and stayed.
-Lang Leav
4.Distance
DISTANCE
It was all I wanted for the longest time-to open my eyes and see you there.
To stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. But
Now I have learned the secret of distance. Now I know being close to you was
Never about the proximity.
-LANG LEAV
5. Love
LOVE
I don’t know what it is like to love someone, who the world tells me I am
not supposed to love someone I am afraid to kiss on the street.
But I do know what it is like to love someone who I cannot be with. I know
how it feels to have my brain tell me one things, and my heart another.
to live with the knowledge that if circumstances had been different, I would be
with the one I love.
I do know there are all kinds of barriers to love. I do believe the world needs less
of them.
_Lang Leav
6.Three Questions
THREE QUESTIONS
What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
it was like being exhumed, I answered. And
brought to life in a flash of brilliance.
What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy.
it was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I
replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
What was it like to lose him? Asked Sorrow.
there was a long pause before I responded.
It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to
me- said all at once.
-Lang Leav
7.Almost
Almost
Do you see
how I love him true-
it could have been you.
as for you
and your love for she-
it could have been me.
But we were a maybe,
and never a must-
when it should’ve been us.
-Lang Leav
8.Deja Vu
DÉJÀ VU
I saw it once,
i have no doubt;
but now can’t place
its whereabouts.
I try to think it,
time and time;
but what it is,
won’t come to mind.
A word, a scent-
a feeling, past.
but it won’t show,
though much I’ve asked.
And when it comes,
I soon forget-
this is how it felt,
when we first met.
-Lang Leav
9.I Loved Him
I LOVED HIM
I loved how his eyes danced merrily,
and the gentle way he spoke,
the way he filled my aimless days,
with bitterness and hope.
I loved him as I fell to sleep,
and each morning as I woke;
I loved him with all my wayward heart-
until the day it broke.
-Lang Leav
10.Wishful Thinking
WISHFUL THINKING
You say that you are over me,
my heart,
it skips,
it sinks.
I see you now with someone new,
I stare,
I stare,
I blink.
Someday I’ll be over you,
I know,
I know-
I think.
_Lang Leav
11.4,000 Miles
4000 MILES
The lines stitched into highways;
the never-ending seams,
on roads that are less travelled,
dividing you and me.
I wish I could unravel,
the fabric in-between,
and tear away the distance,
to bring you close to me.
-Lang Leav
