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LOTR
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since 2000-07-31
Posts 68
New Jersey

0 posted 2000-08-20 10:00 PM



AFTER LOVE

   Can there really be a friendship
   after a love shared so deep?
   Can I just push it all behind me
   and pretend you're still the same person?
   A person who I loved so passionately,
   who I would gladly die for
   is now supposed to be just a friend?
   All the days and nights of memories
   are to be swept aside like a dream,
   to talk to each other as if it never occured?
   How am I supposed to talk to you
   and not feel the familiar desires rising?
   Not feel the wants we both once shared,
   burning inside me, consuming me.
   Fear has stolen your love from me,
   fear of commitment, change, dependancy.
   Those things you so fear, I embrace.
   I yearn for the time again when love was so true,
   When nothing mattered except you and I.
   But those days are gone, lost forever.
   Is there friendship after love?
   No. Only pain and darkness that's all consuming,
   never again to see the light of love.
  


Look back at your past, but don't stare too long.You might not like what you find

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Dedreia
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since 2000-07-10
Posts 172
Kokomo, Indiana, United States
1 posted 2000-08-20 10:07 PM


Oh my friend the heartbreak I feel in this...I don't know if there can be friendship after love, maybe after many years, maybe not.  I am always here for you.  Keep writing it helps ease the pain.  Love ya..Dee  

"It doesn't matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love" Rod McKuen

catalinamoon
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since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone
2 posted 2000-08-21 10:01 PM


Sad and powerful. Its a hard question, I don't know the answer either. I too, long for the old love, and don't know if it is there. I have spent years trying to be just friends with someone, but the love always wins out.
Good luck, and take care.
catalinamoon

Joel the wolf
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since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333
Angels Camp
3 posted 2000-08-21 10:26 PM


The answer like this for me was no, the loss is so tragic, it rips the heart out.
And each time they are near the feelings grow darker, with passion/hate.
Move on kid, find a heart that wants what you want, life.
Great poem, hard feelings.

Joel.

I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

MMoonchild
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since 2000-07-13
Posts 1715
PA
4 posted 2000-08-22 07:01 PM


well before Friday I would have said no way can you be friends after a love breaks up...but I am living proof that after an almost thirty year love, we will end up friends...and put the rest of the D world to shame...he is still kissing me goodbye in the morning and says he will til  he moves out..that he actually likes me....WOW..and I always thought he loved me but never liked me..
~~sighing
Maureen

moshpit
Member
since 1999-11-25
Posts 143
cebu, philippines
5 posted 2000-08-23 10:03 AM


Those things you so fear, I embrace.

wow, what a piece of verse.. cool piece, LOTR.

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