Best Poems for Love for the Heart

    How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, – I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.   

  Iniyum Janikkatha Kaviyaanu Njan
Iniyum Marikkatha Kaviyanau Njan
Madhuramam Ormathan Mashipuratti
Jeevitha Thalukal Cheenthinokki
Nenjukeeri Viraharakthamozhuki
Hrudayashakalangal Njanezhuthiveppu     

    Ariyathenjan Ninne Pranayikkave
Idanenjil Swapnangal Njan Menayave
Andhamaam CVaakkukal Vishwasichen
Sneha Sphadigagolam Nee Erinjudachu
Ninte Swapnangalathrayum Chithalarichu    

    Naam Kanda Kanavukal Ini Ninakk
Ormakalil Illa Nadappaathakal
Iniyenthu Baakiyen Vibhramangal
Ivide Kurikkumee Kavitha Mathram
Aayiram Aandukal Balikidakkan
Iniyum Marichida Kaamukan Njan    

  Bhoomithan Avasaana Naal Vannidum
Pralaya Meghangal Vishamaari Peyyum
Annum Ninakkay Njan Kathu Nilkum
Ninakkayi Kaikal Njan Neetti Nilkum
Ninavil Marikkatha Pranayathinaay
Ninakkay Midippu Njan Kathuvekkum!      

  A simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

I met a little cottage Girl:
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.

She had a rustic, woodland air,
And she was wildly clad:
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
—Her beauty made me glad.     

  You say that two at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea,
Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell,
Sweet Maid, how this may be.”

Then did the little Maid reply,
“Seven boys and girls are we;
Two of us in the church-yard lie,
Beneath the church-yard tree.”

“You run about, my little Maid,
Your limbs they are alive;
If two are in the church-yard laid,
Then ye are only five.     

  I’m sitting here in my room, looking at your picture,
wondering why you couldn’t be a part of my future.
Uncontrollable tears stream down my face,
while my heartbeat starts to race.
Asking God why he took you from my life,
it was more painful than stabbing me in the heart with a knife.
I still needed you here.
You were the one to make everything so clear.
You are a part of me, and I am a part of you.
When you died, a part of me died too.
I never knew how hard it was to lose someone you love
until the day you went to heaven above.
Even though I can’t see,
I know you’re up there watching over me.
I miss you more and more every day,
and all I can do is pray.
In my heart you shall forever remain.     

    When you lose
someone you love,
life will change.
You rearrange,
and everything around you
seems so strange.

The world will spin
in the wrong direction.
You feel alone
and want affection.
Your appetite changes.
You may not sleep.
You don’t feel like talking
to anyone you meet.

But as time goes on,
things will get better,
and everything
just comes together.     

  We named her Casey Lynn.
A quote I love always comes to mind when thinking of her:
“An angel in the Book of Life
wrote down my baby’s birth;
then whispered as she closed the book –
Too beautiful for Earth.”
Fly high on angel wings, my love!    

    How I yearn for your warm embrace
Tears fall down my face
Can you see in my eyes
How much I hate our goodbyes
I think about you all the time
I know in the end we will be just fine
Touch me, love me, be with me
The way we are supposed to be
I’ve always wanted to be with you
And do the things that lovers do
Tell me you want to be with me
And that we were meant to be
Precious pain go away
Please don’t come back another day
Dreaming of you
Is all I do   

    This fire I feel…sparks…heat…exotic…burning inside
My feelings for you I cannot hide
Wishing…hoping…yearning…wanting…needing you near
Can you tell how much I want you, dear?
I can’t pretend anymore
It’s you whom I adore
It’s you whom I’ve been longing for
I just want to give you my love…my heart
And I never want us to be apart
In the moonlight I wish on the stars that you were here
Instead of being there.
One day I will feel your warm embrace
And no more tears will fall down from my face     

  Nobody knows it’s empty,
The smile that I wear.
The real one is left behind in the past
Because I left you there…

Nobody knows I am crying.
They won’t even see my tears.
When they think I am laughing,
I wish you were here…

Nobody knows it’s painful.
They think that I am strong.
They say it won’t kill me,
But I wonder if they are wrong. 

    Of all the emotions a person can feel,
Love is scariest and hardest to heal.
Excitement and mystery impossible to resist.
Promises of magic perpetually persist.
We long for a connection that is as strong as it is true,
But love always does as love wants to do,
So to the emotion of love, I just want to say,
I’m much better off without you; I’m glad you went away,
‘Cause I’d much rather live with a heart that can sing,
A smile that struggles to be more than a grin.
I might not be happy, but at least I’m not sad,
Holding onto happiness that I never had,
Love’s an impostor, a thief in the night,
Reduces flames to embers that no longer burn bright.
Love captains your emotions and steers your fate.
Love is the only emotion that I truly hate.     

  The worst pain known to me
Is to be stuck on a love that never could be,
To love someone who’ll never be free.
The worst pain known to me.

My heart aches unfathomably
Knowing he too wishes it could be
Him and me forever with glee.
The worst pain known to me.

He has each and every quality
That I desire continuously.
I try to forget him persistently.
The worst pain known to me.     

      Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.  

 Tears on my pillow,
I can’t count how many I’ve cried.
I feel so awfully hollow,
Almost like it’s me that died.

How long will I feel so empty,
Will this heartache ever end?
How long will I have to wait,
Until we meet in Heaven, my friend?    

   Death has parted us my dear,

Something no mortal could do.
And I am left behind now,
Feeling oh so lost and blue.

No more will I rise each morning,
To see your dear, sweet face,
To hear you say good morning,
And fold me in your embrace.

We’ve kissed our final good night,
And we’ve said our last goodbye.
And now there’s nothing for me to do
But remember you my love, and cry.     

 A life so young and full of hope,
Cut down in its shining prime.
The death of a child never seems right,
A child should have so much more time.

A child should laugh and play and sing,
Not listen to the death knell ring.
Oh death, you are a heartless thing
To steal the life of a child.    

  Death,
The taker of life…
The bringer of sorrow…
The comforter of the afflicted…
The enemy of loved ones…
The ultimate destiny of every living being.