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lorilockheart
Member

since 2000-05-06

Posts 206
Alabama

0 posted 2000-05-06 04:34 PM

I Thought I Knew - by Lori Lockheart

What happened to us?
I thought I knew.

You were my everything.
You held my world in the palm of your hand,
and you never even knew it.

I knew you loved me,
but I thought I was just a something,
instead of an everything.

I thought I knew.
So I let you go.

But not the loving, the longing, or the aching.

I thought I knew.
It was for the best.

And now, after all this time,
I’m finally looking into the blue of your eyes again,
and you tell me,
you tell me I was your everything.

How can that be?
I thought I knew.

What happened to us?
If I was an everything, and you were an everything,
why don’t we have something now?

It’s surprising to me.
The softness, the sensuality, the yearning, and the love,
it’s still there.

Does it matter?

We can’t happen to each other.
I have no right to you,
and you certainly have none to me.
That right belongs to another.
Another who wears a ring,
and vowed I am his everything.

All this time, I thought I knew,
so I’ve been able to live without you.

But I’m still captivated by you,
and it does matter.

Everything has been missing for all this time,
my everything.
And I didn’t even see it until tonight,
yet there it is.

Your eyes, your smile, just your way,
has taken my breath, my senses.
And here I am again,
right back in the palm of your hand – intoxicated.

You are still my everything.
And we do have something

Between us.

But I can’t get something for nothing,
and everything is here with you.

What happened to us?
I thought I knew.

And now, now what do we do?

Tuck
Junior Member

since 2000-04-29

Posts 27

1 posted 2000-05-06 04:44 PM

what a captivating poem! this is wonderful- i almost wanted him too....

CocoBaci
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 3043

2 posted 2000-05-06 04:48 PM

In a life filled with confusion
The only calm that can be found
Is within the soul of a genuine heart.
Nice writing Lori, I enjoyed it!
CocoBaci

Jeffrey Carter

Member Elite

since 2000-04-08

Posts 2367
State of constant confusion!

3 posted 2000-05-06 05:15 PM

First let me say Welcome to Passions. This is a great first post. I look forward to reading more of your work.

I think you will find this place to be like a family.

All my love,
Jeffrey

I lie awake in a world filled with dreams,
but dreams can be so real when you don't know you're asleep

Tuck
Junior Member

since 2000-04-29

Posts 27

4 posted 2000-05-06 05:22 PM

thanks for the reply- i'm always looking for kindred spirits.....

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2000-05-06 05:43 PM

LoriLockHeart~
This is a lovely entrance into the
family of Passionate poets.

Longingly done with style.
Welcome to Passion's.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

netswan
Senior Member

since 2000-03-28

Posts 1369
Washington

6 posted 2000-05-06 05:45 PM

Hi Lori! Welcome to Passions!
Oh, what a cool longing poem.

Thanks for sharing.

netswan

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

7 posted 2000-05-06 09:10 PM

Welcome to Passions, Lori! I can sense the longing in this. Please check your e-mail for a special welcome!

Denise

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

8 posted 2000-05-06 09:56 PM

LORI, HI and add my welcome to the list,
and I am so taken with this poem...
you wrote my heart in this piece.
so very well written and thought out...
and you ask so many of loves hardest questions...let me know if ya find the answers...Im still searching.
take care, jm

It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and you lose it all ...
And it's unnerving
How one move just puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell ...
I'm not sayin
That there was nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not sayin
We ever had the right to hold on
I just didn't wanna let you get away from me.
~MB20~Leave

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