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When Do You Know That Love is Gone?
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When Do You Know That Love is Gone? |
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Julie Jordan Scott Member
since 1999-09-19
Posts 146Bakersfield, CA USA 
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Is it when the sight of you brings me neither happiness nor anger distaste nor contentment contempt nor humor? When do you know that love is gone? Is it when I forget what first attracted me? I don't call you first when important things happen? That lovemaking makes me cry, and more lonely than before? When do you know that love is gone? Is it when you find out about my life by reading my email? Or listening to my telephone calls? Or asking our kids? When do you know that love is gone? Is it when I wish that you will find another and fall madly in love so I will be guilty no more? Or just stop wanting or needing or liking me? Because I know that love is gone. I am a Life Purpose Coach who specializes in assisting men and women to clarify their Life Purpose and then in turn live true to their purpose. After 5 years working with the Severely Mentally Ill in County Mental Health, I gave up the bureaucracy (and safe, secure blanket) of this environment to pursue my own purpose and passion. |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
More good questions here? I think maybe all of those tell you. Touching and sad. Take care. Catalinamoon |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
when it's no longer in your heart. . . just one of many answers I'm sure. . . a sad poem. . . --------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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jonmcm Member
since 2000-10-11
Posts 222England |
Julie, I think you have comprehensive ansewers to the question of 'When'. Very sad, but a poem I was glad to have read.  Regards Jon |
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Julie Jordan Scott Member
since 1999-09-19
Posts 146Bakersfield, CA USA |
catalinamoon, sven and jon.... Thanks for your responses.....I think in writing this I was giving myself the answers already, and wishing it was easier to break someone else's heart. *Sigh* Thanks again! JULIE |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
a lovely poem, I would answer..when you have to ask.....and it is sad, isn't it? "When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey."" Laurie Lee Kathleen |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Julie, it's never easy to break another's heart. . . I know. . . ------------------------------------------------------ That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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RainbowGirl Member Elite
since 1999-07-31
Posts 3023United Kingdom |
Julie: When you can stop holding conversations in your head and then berating yourself for having them...LOL HUGS ps: It's cheaper than smashing plates though..  [This message has been edited by RainbowGirl (edited 10-21-2000).] |
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Tara Simms Senior Member
since 1999-08-12
Posts 1244Honea Path, SC USA |
When is love gone? When you smell the cologne you gave him and don't automatically turn to see if he's there, when you wake in the morning and don't expect to find him lying next to you, when hearing his name doesn't bring a smile of pleasure or a wince of pain, when you stop writing him poems that he'll never read. I'll let you know when I reach that point. Take me as I am or watch me as I go |
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Gemini Senior Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 1203Wisconsin, USA |
Julie-I am pondering these same questions myself. When he leaves on a trip and comes back and I neither miss him, nor care that he is back and sometimes wish maybe he'd stay away a little longer. I know what you mean about the crying part after making love. You hit home with this poem, sensitive issues. I hope in your future and mine we will work it out. Hugs, nice piece. |
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startin_fresh Member
since 1999-08-13
Posts 137US |
Julie You have asked the questions that I have asked myself privately for years. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Shawn Beacon of Hope! Your guiding light during life's troubling moments. www.yourbeaconofhope.com |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
I am with you in times of bliss sadness also knows me well seek me with a soft kiss if I am there the lips will tell. Look for me when you are alone feel me amongst the largest crowd If there I shall always be known even within the darkest cloud. < !signature--> Jamie Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil. "Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely". [This message has been edited by Prometheus (edited 10-21-2000).] |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Julie, Very sad and not an easy thing to do . . . I have been on both sides and neither is much fun. Good writing. Welcome to Passions. Lone Wolf Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Excellent writing...reminded me of the moment in "War of the Roses" when the husband was rushed to the emergency room...perhaps to die...and the wife was notified...and she realized she didn't have to rush to the hospital because she didn't care if he died...the love was gone...James |
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