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hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 1999-08-22 09:07 AM


Unrequited Love

Quietly she sits in longing
Quietly she sits in wait
Who is she to venture from here?
Who is she to tempt her fate?

Minutes seem to pass like hours
Hours seem to pass like days
Still she sits here waiting for him
She's left her life in many ways

Darkness soon starts to surround her
Daylight it is fading fast
Not believing he isn't coming
She clings only to the past

It's been years since he has left her
Still she sits and waits for him
Watches as the night surrounds her
Waits as daylight soon grows dim

In her mind she sees him with her
Dressed up in his suit of black
This is love so unrequited
She can't see he won't be back

So the woman waits in silence
Spends her final days this way
While the man sits with his family
Watching all his kids at play

Promises he once had told her
Long forgotten in the past
Still she waits, for she believed him
When he said their love would last

She spends her days recalling memories
While pictures of them hang above
Is there no such sadder story...
Than that of unrequited love?

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

© Copyright 1999 Ruth Kephart - All Rights Reserved
IsabelleSkye
Member
since 1999-06-27
Posts 253

1 posted 1999-08-22 09:43 AM



geez we are all such a sad bunch!
*sniff*
I.Skye

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla
2 posted 1999-08-22 09:52 AM


hoot_owl_rn,
The basket of sorrow over flows this morning.
Good job.

wayoutwalt
Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)
3 posted 1999-08-22 10:29 AM


i grew up singing this dirge yuh sad it is cant force a girl to like me but yuh happy now and related to yur poem i did it was good
DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396

4 posted 1999-08-22 10:49 AM


There is nothing so painful.

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Shall I indulge in flights of fancy hampered by clipped wings?
DreamEvil©



aziza
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since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!
5 posted 2007-06-20 02:44 AM


Beautiful and sad, so sad.

A

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural
6 posted 2007-11-10 09:48 PM


enjoyed

ARCTIC WIND

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