I wrote this poem January of 2010 following a breakup with my high school sweetheart. I wrote it after our dating concluded two months after hopping in to something new. I was emotionally hurt, expressing my views through poetry. As a working-teenager at the time, I do recall the anger, the heartache, the emotion, my friends checking on me to see how I was. I was puzzled and all I wanted to do was fix it. It’s in my Capricorn nature to fix what it is out of my control. Was it love? Was it infatuation? Was it just another teenage romance? An off-and-on decade along her side and my views have always been written with the same tone. Enjoy my poem All For You Or Nothing At All.
All for You or Nothing At All ©
Poetry by: Lucas Turner-Harris
January 22, 2010
Never loved another like you,
Sometimes I just wish you knew,
The things that you put me through.
Rather if what we go through is good or bad,
You try to love me even if I’m mad,
I don’t like seeing your face always sad.
I love to see your smile,
You’re in my head, got my moods so versatile.
I want you to be happy for me and our child.
When I ask you do you love me, you don’t hesitate in denial.
But what’s to deny? You say you love me right?
You said you’ll never lie and tell the truth and be honest-like.
Said you want to stay together? Me and you for life!
You want to be with me like husband and wife?
I can prove to you I’m yours.
Prove to me you’re mine.
No eyes for another,
You’re in my head all the time!
I just wish you wouldn’t blow up,
You know what I mean.
I do everything for you,
Treating you like my queen.
I want to give you your own kingdom, a key to your palace.
Promise me you’ll keep the ring and it’s me you’ll never malice.
I ask you to be the one I marry, I trust you with all my heart.
You got my heart now, I figured it from the start.
What is it you want to hear? That you’re the one I trust?
I told you that I do and I’m sorry but that’s a must!
We gotta communicate, we both have our dislikes.
You said no one is perfect but to interpret, is it me that you like?
You tell me you have no doubts.
Is that true? I can’t see how.
The way you act at times portrays to me,
That I do things that make you pout.
I NEED YOU TO TALK TO ME,
Things still continue till this day,
I’ll always come to you first even if in disarray.
I never realized,
Your real eyes, the real lies,
Sometimes you made me cry.
Remember all the days we spent together those nights?
Making up again after recovering from the fights.
Gladly they weren’t fights, the arguing was dismissed.
Hope what you tell me isn’t amiss, let the pain erode with your kiss.
I love the way you touch me,
I love the way you’re shy.
I really love the way I pray,
You’re my girl and I’m your guy.
I’m madly in love with you,
Seriously do you love me boo?
Yes I had my doubts,
I was scared of the truth.
Still seeking answers,
Listening to gossip like cancer.
What I want to know,
When I call will you answer?
I’m interested in knowing who you are.
I want to learn about you, my star.
Nothing compares to the feelings,
When we’re together in the car.
Looking straight up in your eyes,
Yellow lights & cloudy skies.
I never like to hear goodbyes,
But I tell you things to advise.
First things first let’s get to know each other.
You’re the perfect wife and mother and I know I really love her.
We’re in this relationship, you and me together,
You’re the one I choose to be with me forever.
Every kiss you give to me, I scream your name, “Devin!”
Don’t just stay with me on Earth but one day when we get to Heaven.
You gotta understand me and my point of views,
I understand you, what you got to lose?
I’ve done nothing but care for you,
Giving you my all.
Staring dudes down, shopping at the mall.
I care about you baby,
But are you really changing like you say?
You know how I feel, don’t use me, but I’m here to stay.
I’m doing this all for you, actually all for us!
I wouldn’t do nothing at all if it wasn’t for trust.
The greatest love is above, you are my shining dove,
DEVIN I LOVED YOU! I think this is proof enough.
But apparently you chose nothing at all,
I tried to give you the world but instead you made me fall.
I instilled my trust in you in everything we’d be together,
But you let the world win so there was never a forever.
I think you used me, made me fall, pulled the lever,
This was what you wanted, you’re real clever.
The day I broke up with you, you didn’t let me know how you felt,
But this morning you broke up with me, I think you want somebody else.
Maybe that’s not the case, I did everything for you,
But this is your decision, this is what you choose.
THCreate 
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