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Open Poetry #21

I Could Have

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2002-06-20 09:44 PM

I Could Have

a wind just blew
through me
it gave me a chill
a memory
caught by surprise
one that went deep
one I thought
I had hidden
memory of a moment
moment in time
when things
could have been
so different
but like
so many others
a mistake
I had simply
let slip by
I could have
acted differently
I could have
told you
I cared
I could have
I should have
but I tried
to save you
save you from me
and in saving you
I lost you altogether
and then
I didn’t know
it would be
the last time
and now
all this time later
just thinking
your name
takes me back
to then

"The heart is the toughest part of the body, tenderness is in the hands." Carolyn Forche'

the_loner_23
Member Ascendant

since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

1 posted 2002-06-20 09:45 PM

Beautifully written

Cold hands means a warm heart

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