Unrequited Love Longing
The love I feel for you is the love Apollo felt for Daphne.
I run up to you, you run away from me.
Perhaps Eros hit you with the wrong arrow, which is why you can't love me.
Every time I come near you, you walk right past me.
I try to touch you,
Try to speak to you,
Try to make you see me,
But Alas! Our love is like Apollos and Daphne.
However, I don't want to repeat Apollo's mistake.
I don't want you to hate me
Perhaps if I stop searching for you.
Who knows, perhaps one day you'll come looking for me.
About this poem
This poem expresses a sense of unrequited love and longing, drawing parallels between the speaker's emotions and the mythological tale of Apollo and Daphne. The comparison suggests that the speaker feels a strong love for the person they're addressing, but like Apollo, they feel that their affections are unreciprocated.
Written on February 10, 2023
Submitted by William28 on July 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 527 |
Words | 128 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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