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gjam
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since 2000-08-23
Posts 85
Arkansas

0 posted 2000-09-16 05:04 PM




  Sometimes I hear your voice
heartache from the past,
  Feel guilt for some actions
harsh words were the last.

  The lessons in love
that I learned from you,
  The pain that I felt
I had never been through.

  The night of temptation
was to be my last,
  I told her no thanks,
I will have to pass.

  The first test of my heart
and if it was true,
  at this moment I realized
I truly loved you.

  Next day I woke up
as happy as can be,
  because now I knew
I loved you and you loved me.

  Then the phone rang
and I got the call,
  You were through with me
the end thats all.

  I tried to tell you
that my love was true,
  It was too late
forever we're through.

  The pain was intense
it lasted so long,
  Still don't feel the same
even though I've moved on.

  As Murphy would have it
I was a day late,
  Didn't realize how closely
I tempted our fate

  It was all my fault
I take all the blame,
  I accepted my fate
I took all the pain.

  Its been five years
almost to the day
  I've not seen you once
had so much to say.

  Where are you now
married...I know,
  No one has come close
to the love that you shown.

  I hope you are happy
as you could ever be,
  But I will always feel
like he should be me.

  I thank you for the pain
that turned me into me,
  I will always be the man,
you wanted me to be.

  I've not felt anything
like I felt for you,
  But now I can look
and see if it's true.

  My lessons in love
I learned in the past,
  Next time that it happens
I know it will last.


  

  
  


  


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LM
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since 2000-08-03
Posts 585

1 posted 2000-09-16 05:44 PM


Oh... this is great...
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone?"
Yeah... when you think a day or two won't matter, he/she will still be there 'till you make up your mind... and than *baaaam!!!* and they're gone.  
Sometimes it looks as if someone is playing with us like puppets, life just laughs us in the face, I totaly know what you meant. Thanks for sharing, take care!



"Most girls want a man with the mean green
Don't wanna dance if he can't be
Everything that I dream up
A man that understands real love"


fractal007
Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958

2 posted 2000-09-16 05:57 PM


Nice poem.  I like the fact that you learned a lesson from all this.  It is often all too easy to just simply consider the experience a wound and leave it at that.  It sounds like you're pretty wise.  Nice writing.
taramw
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since 2000-06-08
Posts 738

3 posted 2000-09-16 10:04 PM


Superbly written    Captured it very well!  Take care.

~ Tara ~


"A poem should not mean, but be" - Archibald MacLeish

gjam
Member
since 2000-08-23
Posts 85
Arkansas
4 posted 2000-09-16 11:11 PM


Thanks for the replies...I don't really know why I decided to write this one...but I did...I learned alot...my only heartbreak....live and learn..life shall go on!!
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