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It Used To Be
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It Used To Be |
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Chalmette Guy Senior Member
since 2009-03-11
Posts 1257Louisiana 
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I opened a forgotten tome to a page that showed Whittier, who once wrote long ago That of sad words from tongue or pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been’ I pointed her to this thoughtful decree Spelled out so well and carefully And hesitated, afraid to make unclear The point of which I wanted her to hear She gazed first with those luminous eyes That traveled from first the page, to meet mine An instant became forever just then As the words resounded, ‘It might have been’ In that brief hesitation bathed in her glow It was then and there that I came to know That of sad words that shall echo eternally The saddest are in truth, ‘It used to be’ |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Oh boy is this ever the truth! However, the older you get you learn somehow to just let it go, and deal with the here and now. Well done! Carpe' Diem, |
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GBride Senior Member
since 2009-07-02
Posts 538 |
I read in a biography of the poet and author Thomas Hardy that he once saw a lovely young woman in a carriage and thought to introduce himself. But he became shy and walked on by. He always wondered after that what might have been. great poem. I liked it very much! |
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GBride Senior Member
since 2009-07-02
Posts 538 |
I read in a biography of the poet and author Thomas Hardy that he once saw a lovely young woman in a carriage and thought to introduce himself. But he became shy and walked on by. He always wondered after that what might have been. great poem. I liked it very much! |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Yes. How insightful and how beautifully expressed! Love, Margherita |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Oh so true. But I'm with Mysteria on this, am only looking forward since I cannot alter the past. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
How heartbreakingly true!!! Maybe it's better to have loved and lost than not to have loved... but you KNOW what you're missing. Incredible! |
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Dreamer05 Junior Member
since 2009-06-23
Posts 30Kansas |
This poem of yours is wonderful. So well written. In fact, reading it brings up old feelings long buried and I think about what might have been and what used to be. It makes me long for things I can no longer have. But I have to force myself to remember that it was all a learning experience. Now I must look foward and not think on what might have been and what used to be. Nicely done  ~Dreamer05~ |
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