I Guess That's The Way It Goes

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Open Poetry #14

I Guess That's The Way It Goes

John Yaws
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 860
Texas

0 posted 2001-06-04 03:49 PM

Just another teen-aged couple
They were walking hand in hand.
In his mind she was his woman,
In her mind he was her man.

They were sitting on a park bench-
When she wrote upon his hand-
The tender words, I love you-
In his mind the world was grand.

Slightly less than one year later-
In his country’s uniform...
His hopes were dashed forever,
All their plans had died unborn...

Not one thing about them special
With their agonies and woes.
This whole world is filled with problems,
I guess that’s the way it goes.

Later on, now in his twenties-
He has met another girl...
Who sees in him the things she’s dreamed of,
Her young heart is all awhirl...

But a heart once it’s been broken-
Can never love the same,
And no matter how a women tries-
A wild wolf can’t be tamed.

Now the years have flown so swiftly-
And his youth has passed him by,
The Grim Reaper closely stalks him,
And he knows he soon will die.

Thinking back on foolish choices-
He would change them now, he knows-
But you only go round once in life...
I guess that’s the way it goes.

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

1 posted 2001-06-04 06:07 PM

What a story, I truuly enjoyed this and it flowed so nicely..

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

2 posted 2001-06-04 06:40 PM

Life is simple: you're born, you die.
It's the stuff in between that tells you if it was worth the simplicity.

SuBzeRo

Gunslinger enjoyed the poem, as usual we tend to find wisdom only in hindsight.

"difference between love and comfortis that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always therea crutch for enmity's saddest glare"

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