Poem about hurting someone you love

[billy]

hi guitargirl

as it stands, the poem is cliche heavy, it reads like many other poems of this genre. it needs to be more original in the telling, some images would be a good route to go. show us what you feel with an image. at present everything is being told in flat voice. make it a little ambiguous.

thanks for the read.

loneliness claws at my heart
but mistakes
scare it away
regrets swarm around my mind
but reality
won't let them stay

i put on a mask
to cover my hurt
i show the world happiness
with a pitiful smirk this is pretty much an extended cliche

i did this to myself
yet i still wonder
why
why can't it be normal again
it seems impossible to obtain
no matter how hard
i try this stanza tells us too little

i wish there were words
to help me explain
what i am experiencing
through all this pain

as time marches by
i try to take it back
grab it
the clock
rewind
undo
fix all the problems
that i handed to you

sorrow questions my integrity
but my actions
laugh it off
love tries to recapture you
but your heart
has had enough