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The Longest Night

With winter comes a tragic sadness.

That day the onset of the nightfollowed shortest daytime lightas winter’s first sun set in a gray sky.Then came blackness after fall.Winter darkness covered all.That night I held your hand and watched you die.And so began the painful startof winter for my...

The day I found out about you was one full of mixed emotions. You were unexpected, unplanned but never unwanted yet I couldn’t shift the feelings of foreboding that I had. Uncertainty, fear, dread even, and the feeling that things were no longer within my...

Where can my heart go to break? To lose this pain that I cannot shake, You ran right through it with a stake And left me with this numbing ache.Where can my heart go to bleed? To rid myself of this addictive need The love and hope that your words would fe...

Memories of an Amnesiac

A story based on a dream that made me cry, this had to be written before I forgot it.

My name is El-My name is E-I don’t know my name. Who am I? More importantly, where am I?Oh.I didn’t quite know what I was doing at the ceremonial event. It was not ‘my kind of scene’. But there I was at the opening credits of the play, formal wear on, in...

Letting Go

Enough love was never enough.

We live our lives inside a dreamBelieve we know what it all meansI tried to show you what I thought was realAnd can’t you seeIt’s hurting meI won’t let goAnd I want you to know That it’s youYou mean that much to meTaking time to watch love growQuestioning...

Lost Forever

what if my true love was never born ~ not a poitical statement

I miss you in the dead of nightthe soulmate that I'll never knowI miss you in the morning lightthe love that I can never show I've waited and I've stopped to looka secret, an unfinished booka whisper in somebody's earthe thought, the overwhelming fear wha...

Departing

The happiest person in your life could hurt you the most.

Having companionship can be the happiest thing in life, but saying goodbye to your companion can be extremely depressing. While you are having so much fun around him, suddenly, he is gone. Either migrated or death, you felt his presence has disappeared in...

Winter is coming

The seasons change no matter how much we don't want them to.

. The days are shorter,They grow colder,They grow dimmer,A breeze from the north. Green fades to gray,Not steady each day,But slowly, inexorably,The summer will fade. I feel it in my bones.I feel it in my head.I feel it in my soul.Little to feed my heart....

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I never cried for you. You knew me the best, the ache that always flared when I slept the wrong way, your soft hands would find it, body draped and spooned to mine as a living thermal blanket. You'd quietly touch in the dark, soothing that spinal ghostwit...

Our Angel

To a dear friend I loved and Lost

Introduced to me By a dear friend A broken angel I knew could mend With time and patience  And I knew was a must She was shy and scared But I earned her trust Body and soul She’d been wounded deep Her sweet angel wings Now lay at her feet. She and my frie...

You were in my life Every single day Then so suddenly You went away I do not understand the words Or how one can say It gets easier with each passing day I have a need to talk to you To see and feel your touch I smile as your presence Washes over me I fee...

The past always returnsA cycle unbrokenAnd repeating patternsLeaving behind the burnsLoves, friends and familyPeople I cannot hateDecide I'm unworthyLike some flaw within meOne too many failuresThe mistakes piling onA question that fracturesThere are no m...

I went away todayDriving in my carI thought of you against meHow warm and strong you are I went away todayTalking on the phoneGripped by those blue velvet eyesYet I was all alone I went away todayGoing through the mailThinking how you tie your tieYour col...