Love and Fate: Will You? | A Free Verse Poem

Backstory

This love and fate poem isn’t about one real person. It’s written from the perspective of fate and destiny. The idea that somewhere out there, someone is meant for you, even if you haven’t met them yet.

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I wanted to explore that feeling. The waiting. The wondering if the universe already has an ending written for you. The questions that come up when you imagine someone before you’ve ever seen their face, close to what I felt writing The Love.

I’m not writing this because I have the answer. I’m writing it because that not-knowing is part of what makes the idea of fate so unsettling and so hopeful at the same time. If you’ve read When My Heart Finally Outruns My Mind, you’ll know I keep coming back to this same tension between wanting certainty and accepting I don’t have it.

The poem

Will You?

Why do I keep telling myself

that someday we’ll meet?

Perhaps destiny has already played its game,

and written an ending I cannot change.

Even if I want to,

even if I try,

would you do the same?

Would you search for me

the way I search every corner of the street?

Would you chase a glimpse of me

the way I chase you through my dreams?

Even if I try,

even if we finally meet,

would you recognize me?

Would you know the heart

that carried your memory for so long?

Will you ever be mine,

or are you only a lesson

I was meant to learn?

What inspired me?

This poem is about someone I haven’t met yet.

I do not have a name for them. I don’t have a face. But I think about them anyway. That’s the strange part of love and fate is you can miss someone before you’ve even found them.

I wrote this on a night when I was asking myself a simple question. Am I waiting for someone real, or am I just holding onto an idea? The poem does not answer that. It just asks it, over and over, in different ways, similar to how I circled a different kind of longing in Wait for Me.

The hardest line for me to write was the last one. Because deep down, I know both answers are possible. Maybe this person becomes mine. Or maybe they are just a lesson I was meant to learn, and nothing more.

FAQ

1. What is “Will You?” about?

“Will You?” is a free verse poem about love and fate. It asks whether two people who haven’t met yet are meant to find each other, or whether one of them is just meant to be a lesson for the other. The poem doesn’t try to answer that question. It sits inside the uncertainty instead, which is part of what makes it feel honest.

2. Is this poem based on a real person?

No. It’s written from the perspective of fate and destiny, not about one specific person. It explores the idea that someone out there might be meant for you, even before you’ve met them. That’s why the poem reads more like a meditation on love and fate than a story about a real relationship.

3. What does “a lesson I was meant to learn” mean?

It means accepting that not every strong feeling leads to a relationship. Sometimes people, or even just the idea of a person, come into your life to teach you something about yourself, not to stay. This is a common theme in poems about lesson learned moments, where growth matters more than the outcome.

4. Why is the poem written as a series of questions?

Because that’s how uncertainty feels. I didn’t want to pretend I had answers I do not have. Writing it as free verse poems with open questions, instead of neat statements, let the poem stay true to how it actually feels to wonder about fate without any guarantees.

5. Is this considered an unrequited love poem?

In a way, yes. Since the poem imagines someone who may not even know they exist to the speaker yet, it shares the same ache found in love poems. But it’s less about heartbreak and more about hope, which sets it apart from a typical love poem.