Open Poetry #12 |
The Ones We Never Were |
Alexander Junior Member
since 1999-06-10
Posts 16Uk |
THE ONES WE NEVER WERE I paid the price of knowing you, Yet love was not to blame. Your softest sighs, and dressed up lies, To me looked both the same. Such sadness to be seeing, A turn around like this, No more a thousand feelings to be captured in a kiss. As love turns into anger, And the bitterness does rise, The hug when we first met, Has changed to ultimate goodbyes. This gap dividing love and hate, Emotions hot and cold, A gamble with your destiny, A twin edged sword to hold. But as the future turns to past, Each day becomes a year, I watch our story stay behind, And slowly disappear. My heart will not permit me, To turn round and look behind For loving you, and loosing you, Is all that I will find. Yet still there is a part of me, That wishes now was then, Your laugh, your ways, the summer days, Would all be back again. There was a woman I once new, Whose love I thought would last, Now time will keep her locked away forever in my past. As each new day that presents itself, I move to newer ground, No longer so dependent on this love that I had found. Still sometimes when the night grows cold, And old emotions stir, I travel back, as we become, The ones we never were. Copyright:Alexander:January:1999. Alexander |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
An excellent read....Welcome to Passions! |
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Tennessee Angel Senior Member
since 2000-06-03
Posts 661Tennessee |
Oh, I really liked this one! Such emotion..it's really a lovely write. |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
I understood, related and appreciated the value of the truth, the beauty in every emotion...of this poem. The 3rd line blew me away. I wish I had written every word of this! |
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Mabel A. Dilley Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 859Seattle, WA, USA |
Dang! Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and returned to the fair. Trust me, you have captured the haunting moments of past love so very well. "I am not now that which I have been." |
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Trillium
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
Well done and very enjoyable to read, even though it's a sad subject. Betty Lou Hebert |
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Rosebud1229 Senior Member
since 2000-04-05
Posts 1813North Carolina |
beautiful poem, as everyone has said, I to can relate to this, you have written it very well from the heart. |
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