#19 Reaching

Reaching out for a friend who has decided that her boyfriend is everything to her and you don't matter as much to her anymore.

This poem originally was published in Friendship Poems - Poems about Lost Friends

Reaching

by Jill Leenderts

I reached out for your hand
You didn't seem to care;
You can only reach so far
When no one else is there.

Others also reached for you
Hoping to make you see;
That we're just as important
As he will ever be.

We wish we could reach further
But we are only so strong;
We hoped your eyes would open
So that you'd see you're wrong.

It hurts to have to reach far
When you once were so near;
It's hard shouting out for you
With our voices you don't hear.

We wish you'd extend your hand
And sense the friendship there;
Knowing what our memories mean
Showing us you still care.

We realize you don't reach back
Instead his hands with yours;
You can't handle both the worlds
So you close common doors.

We're done reaching for the past
You are now on your own;
We hope he is all worth it,
Without him you're alone.

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bob

this was a great poem with so much meaing send me a letter and ill have a gr8 feeling
Sandra

This is exactly what I am going through with my best friend. She said he would never come between us and now she rarely speaks to me. And when she does its all him. She thinks he is god.
kaylea

this poem is just great it reminds me of my friend lisa because when she goes out with her boyfriend she dnt want to know us but when she isplits up with him she trys to get back into the group of friends so we told her to go and leave us for good i felt nast and betrayed but it was the only thing we could do to stop her using us for nwhen shes got nobody
Yanet

I really liked this poem. I have been in a situation just like this with one of my friends. I guess you cant really call them my friends now. I encourage you to write more poems because you are just wonderful!
Raesheaniqa

That was really good. I have a friend who's coming to that. I try to tell her the right thing to do and she didnt. I like this poem.
Kyla

Hmm I really liked this poem. My Interpretation probably isnt the same as yours. but i did touch me :) My best friend is using a lot a drugs. and instead of my hand. he takes the drugs hands. If that makes any sence. and everyone is in front of himtrying to help im, but he chooses not to see.
Shyla

I really like this poem it reminds me what i am going through RIGHT now. My friend decided to put a guy that she has only knew for a couple months than me who she has knew for 3 or 4 years.
Shyla

This poem is the best i have heard in a while. Me and my x-best friend just had this huge fight like a week ago and she rather be with a boy that she have known for a couple of months than with her best friend that she has known for 3 or 4 years. Come on!
brittany

i like the poem alot better then most i read on poem sites
gena

oh my god, i love your poem . i'm crying so hard right now. my best friend and me have been friends for five years, and when she started dating her boyfriend, i couldn't reach her any more, it was gradual, but i knew we weren't the same any more. i could talk to her with tears in my eyes and beg her to open up to me like she used to, and she wouldn't care. so she just out and told me she didn't want anything else to do with me. i haven't let myself hurt about it until right now. thank you.
Zoe

OMG this poem is soooo GOOD! i LOVE it! alot of my friends used to say this about me, that i wasnt there because i was with my bf =( in the end i realised he wasnt worth it. and then i went back to my friends for support, luckily they forgave me! i love to write poems, im only 13 (almost 14 hehe) but yeah, i still find it so good to get my feelings out! your poem has INSPIRED me to do so much better. THANK YOU =)
Barbara

my friend would rather her boyfriend than me her best friend. she'll rater hold his hand than than talk to me or her twin. i sent this to her and maybe she'll see she meens more to me
Nessa

OMG this poem is so AWSOME. its like exactly what im going through with my best friend. it just seems like her new boy friend is her world and im nothing anymore. i feel ur pain too. im so glad that there is finally a poem about this. iv looked everywhere. i actaully write them myself. but yes this is great. the only this is with me is that i havent yet told her "im no longer reaching" AWSOME POEM!1
ashley

i love this poem because this is exactly how i feel right now. i look up to you for writing this. i write poems too. my "bestfriend" is dating my exboyfriend and it just hurts. i feel like i've been replaced by him. but i give this poem 5 stars.
Sarah

Thanks so much for writing your poem! I'm sorry that you lost a best friend like that. (. It happens to the best of us. If it helps any, I look at it as a way of discovering who your true friends are.
Rebecca

omg-i love ur poem! i know everyone's saying this, but i know what it's like. my bestest friend, who was the only person i could talk to or cry with, got a boyfriend. she promised we'd never lose eachother, but then she chose him over being our friend, and we miss her so bad!
eliesha

this poem remind me of a friend who was the same way i really liked it and sometimes i didnt understood why but now i see why it was
roz-alyn

this poem touched me. its exactly what i'm going through right now, my friend of 17years and best friend for 7 of them years has totally turned her back on me and all her other friends because of her boyfriend. i've read your poem over and over again, its so good!
Jack

Well . i finally found the right poem for me, i know how u feel or felt, the same thing happened to me, i lost my best friend who was a girl to this guy i introduced her too, we've been friends for 8 years now then everything just went to crap! Shes now changed and her bf has completley changed as well, it has been an emotionall struggle for me over the past 2 years of me constantly holding onto our friendship when she didn't want to know - obviously shows how much she apreciated our friendship.
Mindy Jo

Awsome poem. written well. Thank you for sharing and know we all feel that way when a friends turns away

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