"The One"

What I'm looking for:
1. A poem about the biggest,  most significant romantic relationship you've experienced I.E "The one"
2. A poem which explores the essence and nature of that relationship, what made you fall in love, how they made you happy, what it taught or still teaches you (if hopefully they are still your partner or a big part of your life)
3. A poem of a particular tone: happy, upbeat, loving, admiration, commitment, affection,  attachment, desire... Etc... Or similar (However I accept that to tell your story their may need to be elements of sadness or regret, which is OK. I'm just not looking for exclusive "heartbreak" poems)
4. One entry per person, which can be an existing poem that fits or it can be a new poem.

This is my first competition so I hope I've done it right aha! Good luck everyone, I can't wait to read the entries. Xx

Wow two beautiful entries. I'd struggle to pick even just between the two. Thank you so much for sharing 😊X

EVE WAS THE ONE AND ONLY

Oh, Eve!
You know not how you’ve offended me
So happily married
Living by the sea
With two children
Ages one and three

Eve, must you be
So ostentatious flamboyantly
Go-lucky carefree?
Caring-on without
Any sense of humility
Nor decorum or dignity

Eve, don’t misconceive
You will not provoke my jealousy
For its not you I wish to be
It’s your husband Steve
That I envy
Because you married him
Instead of me

Loving You Forever

That was both our first and last kiss
Combined. As you are walking away now
How could you ever forget me? You are
Watching me in the shattered mirrors
That used to be whole when we were
Together. How could I ever make you stay?
I hope that you stay busy thinking of me
Even when you are trying to move on
With your life. I could never let you
Go completely because although we
Messed up we were meant to be.
It was not meant to be temporary
Because it was meant to be forever
Until we took our last breaths.
I was supposed to hold your hand
As our hair turns grey and our skin
Wrinkles. I know that you would still
Be handsome in my eyes and you will
Say that I am as beautiful as the first
Day we met. You will love me even
With no makeup on and when my hair
Is a mess. And I will love you even when
You get on my nerves with your stupid jokes.
Isn’t that the love we want?
Isn’t that the love we deserve?
After all of our ups and downs we deserve
All of this happiness because although
The world passes quickly we have the
Love that continues to burn slowly.
You changed my life and I changed yours.
So if you ever doubt any of this
Always remember the promises
That we made to each other.
“I will love you forever” and even
After that in another lifetime
Because although there are hard things
In this world, loving you is one of the
Easiest things that I have ever done.

labyrinths ~ abstract love letters unsent [i]

{iii} voidness:
i have genuflected. in places of prayer, sung bhajans at
the cardinal points but found no religion, no succor for
my hurt in psalms.
& God was somewhere in your face, some particle of it
that spoke of egolessness.

{ii} junction:
i thought my skin
would tear away
at the places
we were joined.

{i} mouths:
the lip was narrowest at the point where we walked
side by side. i wish i could tell you the view was unobscured
by my perspective, by the impermanence of us or the angle
of the sun when it kissed lviv's skyline goodnight; i was  
too far from pure soil. like that shoe; forgotten next to white filters
haloed in dior red. i thought i could leave the parts of me
that love you in a place i called home; but they followed.
there was perhaps, something poetic in that forlorn sight,
my stiletto, my cigarettes, my heart, discarded on rusted tin. now,
i miss that shoe & the shell casings by the ocean.

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Dream of Another Life

I would dream of another life,
the one in which you were my wife.
By my side in the wistful thoughts
of one who knows the best was loss.
There was the day I would have left
my world behind to be by your side.
That day came and went with timing
that placed us both on other paths.

Our story began many years ago,
in this breadth I see something true.
The years apart are few in compare
to the pleasure we both enjoyed.
Still I wonder what will come to be,
was that happy past just a fad?
I think back to what used to be,
and ponder a future foretold.

Is dreaming enough when they fade?
Illusions twisted to past memories,
a future held captive to reality,
where is my dream of another life?

We both met when we were younger,
you more so with me the elder.
Our paths then crossed and latched,
joined together as decades passed.
You grew older and so did I,
this did not lessen the connection felt.
Dreams were hatched in longing hearts,
of things that would be if life changed.

You're the only one with whom I
would have a child in love shared.
What is this manifest desire
to produce a life with you alone?
You, me, and baby would make more
with the children you had from before.
Each loved because they are part of you,
precious ones that I would adore.

Is dreaming enough when they fade?
Illusions twisted to past memories,
a future held captive to reality,
where is my dream of another life?

A conjunction of love did present,
meeting of bodies one last time.
An opportunity to both exclaim
the way our lives should progress.
The dice were cast, gamble was lost,
when another player took the field.
I'll not begrudge the choices made,
there was more than love at hand.

Hearts became tied with knots of loss,
commitments made along the way,
revelations of God's base desires,
these trumped a life past dreamt.
Our lives parted paths in the woods,
each road leading separate ways.
Others supported this turn of fate
even as tears rose to my eyes.

Is dreaming enough when they fade?
Illusions twisted to past memories,
a future held captive to reality,
where is my dream of another life?

Others now remind me of you,
but they are a poor substitute.
They are not the one I loved,
the one to which I would commit.
The years grow short as winter sets,
twilight drawing on human lives.
You are far while my tears are near,
wheels turn and still I dream of you.

You may never see these bold words,
and still I tell them from my heart.
Casting them out as spilled ink
reveals the marks set in my soul.
I do dream of another life,
the one in which you are my wife.
This passion is my reality,
a cruel twist of this mortal time.

Is dreaming enough when they fade?
Illusions twisted to past memories,
a future held captive to reality,
where is my dream of another life?
I would dream of another life,
the one in which you were my wife.
Where is my dream of another life?
Where is my dream of another life?

Thank you so much all whom have entered so far! I can definitely see more great contenders. X

Absolutely incredible. Thank you for this, it moved me.

I wish that I could take you in like air
(a sonnet)  

I wish that I could take you in like air,  
That you with every breath should fill my soul.
Give life to love where once was blank despair,
Give love to life and, with it filled, leave whole.

I long to revel in your salty sea,    
To wash away with you in lovers' rain.   
That you might seep in every part of me,    
And there find home, while breath and life remain.

When we must part, though every step repent -
We have two lives, though I would have one new -
I wear your words as if they were your scent,    
And sing that I might bathe myself in you.
   
I would that I might fill your soul as well.    
For in your bliss I would as deeply dwell.  
   
   

Two more beautiful poems. I have no idea how I'll pick! I'm really enjoying reading them though, thank you everyone for sharing, I'm so glad I put this up. X

Thank you, host Stephanie, that's so appreciated.  I also just now did a major revision of my entry if you would read it again.  Meantime, I love the theme of this competition!