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Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26
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Ontario, CANADA

0 posted 2010-03-27 03:50 PM


Letting Go


I can’t exactly remember
when it was I let you go.
I never realized that the last time
really was the last time.

You told me that you loved me
what capacity, you did not know.
It consumes me still
controls my everyday.

We became the photographs
of withered lovers
the eyes that grew more vacant
as you gave to me winter
when I only wanted shade.

I am elemental in the silence
I become it, I nourish it –
the finality, the what if, the almost of.
I am weaker in the want
as I try to overcome the traces
that dwell between the first
and last drop of rain,
empty in its own darkness.

I thought of you again today
how you asked me once to love you
and for a beautiful brief I held you
with arms that found no end.

There was a time
when my strength was your equator
when I was molded beneath your hands.
There was a time
when your lips created volcanoes
of lava through stirred skin
as your drank my feminine through the cracks.

But you realized that I wasn’t your happiness.

I tell myself to forgive you
I force my heart to forget you.

Some people think that it’s holding on
that makes you stronger.

Sometimes it’s letting go.

By Melissa Long-Monette


© Copyright 2010 Melissa P. Long-Monette - All Rights Reserved
kjsd
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since 2010-01-07
Posts 74
sd usa
1 posted 2010-03-27 07:57 PM


very good peom
i went throgh a breack up like that and if you whant to see my poutry it is in teen 9

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2010-03-27 08:04 PM


You express it so well...James
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