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I Wish You’d Understand.

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Jasmyn Burton Student Contributor, Bradley University
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bradley U chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

Everyone goes through things. Recently my life has been filled with too many emotions to regulate. Things that help me are music, writing about it, or writing around it. This a poem I wrote about love. It’s unpredictable, strong, and can completely take you over. This is an extremely raw poem, so I hope you all enjoy.

It’s crazy, I can write and talk about you all day long and now every time I think about you, every time I see your face I break into song. I hate giving people that ability to make me feel emotions so deep that I wonder if it’s me. I wonder if I deserve love, but I only wanted it from your sea. You had a unique kind of love. The love that made it easy to close my eyes, the kind of love where a phone call was just as strong as being between my thighs. The kind of love that babied my child self because I fear I grew up to fast. Having him leave my life would be like 10 bullets hitting my body. Now, I’ve never been shot before, but I guarantee the pain is on a similar level because thinking of a life without you makes it hard to breathe. The amount of tears I’ve already cried could fill the distance between us just so i could see your smile. I kept old voicemails of you so that if we couldn’t talk, I could still hear you. I remember just a little over a year ago, you asked me to be yours on my grandmother’s roof and now I don’t know if your love is true. Over a year ago I was afraid to love you but that didn’t stop you. You not communicating didn’t stop me but your so much stronger than me weather it’s a good or a bad thing. You never put your hands on me unless it was to hug me or caress me and or hold my hand. Now I fear I’ll never find a better man. You helped me with investigations, planning birthdays, making Christmas list, when I say I don’t think I’ll recover it’s true. Because life without you will forever be blue. I’m going to stop now because it doesn’t matter what I’d say. I thought I chose you and you chose me and that was the ending of this play. But You know where you are and I just have to be okay. So, I’ll always love you for better or for worse, but what if the roles were reversed. I don’t know. I just wish we could have made it to that verse. 

Jasmyn Burton

Bradley U '26

I am a junior theater performance major with a musical minor. I joined her campus because I wanted an outlet to express myself in a different way than I express myself on stage. I plan to stay in Her Campus for my full college career.