I have sat here looking at your old love letters
Wondering if you ever think of me
It's been so long since i talked to you
And i even wonder where you may be
Slowly i picked up a letter
And unfolded the paper inside
I read the long faded writing
As a tear fell from my eye
It feels if your right beside me
Though i know your far away
Almost as if you're knowing
All the things i wish to say
When i finished reading the letter
I took another from the stack
Reading it as tears fell from my eyes
Wishing somehow i could bring you back
Hours later finally reading
All the letters you wrote
I lay upon the empty bed
With a heart feeling so broke
Thoughts of you fill my head
As i looked out into the starry night
Then with a heavy sigh I reach
And turn out the bedroom light~
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Written March 9th, 2003
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gets right to it
very nice. could feel the whole lonely night.
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Again... wonderful. You described the scenario
in elegant detail. Many of us have been there...
apparently it's a passage of life.
Thanks for sharing.
Wanda
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great job with this one, you took a very powerful sentiment and were able to concretely put it down.. the angst, or fear of never seeing your loved one again, but only through thoughts can be remembered....i like it, maybe next time i sift through all those old letters of mine, i'll try to not cry...very powerful indeed...keep it up
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I have been where this poem took you. Reading so many letters of people who I once loved. Or maybe still do. Yet not like before. I am married now, because those who said they loved me, couldn't give me what I needed....them in person. Internet causes many lies and long distance between souls. ~Bud~
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Brilliantly done
I love poems that take such a simple thought/feeling/incident and convey it to someone else with such heart felt emotion!! Sounds like you have a lot of happy memories which is always a good thing 
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That was fanomanal and the pic goes with it so well.I felt what you were feling in that poem
heather joeslilcuz
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Susan this left me with such a sad, sad feeling. Sometimes I wish I could throw things away that do this to me but I just can't bring myself to do it. Always such a heavy heart after spending time wondering 'if only'. Beautifully writen though - but oh such a sad topic.
~Von~ -
A heart feeling so broke--I love that! (Can't explain why, just do.)
A very lush poem here. Lovely. -
Susan this is beautiful, a warm and tender write... days gone by.. such sweet memories
~GILL~xx -
lightened my mood
Oh sis the memories you brought back to me about my
highschool loves. And all the love letters that went
across the rooms in school. Sweet memories, they were. -
It feels if your right beside me
Though i know your far away
Almost as if you're knowing
All the things i wish to say
A tender write. Emotionally felt. You reigned me in well with this one. Well done Susan
~Mary O -
You expressed yourself very well. It's funny how reading old love letters leave you wondering so many things, so many memories come rushing back. It's always nice to look back at what was...
Great write!
~Emberly~ -
So filled with regret and longing. So many what might have beens and what will never be again here. Such pain of never letting go of a broken heart.
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I read the long faded writing
As a tear fell from my eye
It feels if your right beside me
Though i know your far away
These words made the poem great. You are very talented at what you do. Big Thumbs Up. -
awesome
oh my...
very beautiful, filled with emotions.
u definatly captured the moment
and the feelings.
very lovely indeed. awesome job.
Katie o) -
Beautifully written. Even people that are happily married have times like this--I am and I do. I don't think that you could have described the feelings any better. Thanks for posting this one for the rest of us.
Damon D. Brewer -
Absolutly wonderful
Whonrock rambled!!!!!!! Look how poetic a rambling it was!??? LOL
This was lovely Susan!!!! ~Laura
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WOW that was deep and understanding really nice and touching. Even the background got something going on,. You have alot of poetry that means there's alot for me to catch up on. Well other than everything I said ur a really good poet.
Jesse -
old loves have a way of haunting our memory...good job
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Excellent
Heart felt and tender write Susan ... Many of us have been down this never ending road ...
"It feels if your right beside me
Though i know your far away
Almost as if you're knowing
All the things i wish to say"
Take every care dear friend ... I feel your words.
Sammy.
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A write we can all relate to... mourning the past, second guessing the choices we made, missing those who touched our hearts and souls.
What a sad and beautiful write, Susan.
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Hmmmm...i've done this to myself a time or ten. Never a good idea. Just makes the pain of the past come into sharp, clear present tense focus. And that just hurts.
But i really liked the piece. The emotion was vivid and real.
UB
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Breath-taking~
Oh my god Susan~
How many times I have done this, it is like this poem was replaying back everything that I once did and actually just did a few days ago. You read words like, "I love everything about you. You are so beautiful and I will always love you no matter what happens. I will always be with you and can't live without you. Love, (name) xoxo"....
How many times I have read that and remembered the exact way that I felt when I read it the first time. For some reason you never seem to really grasp what the person is saying and truly feel it all until you don't have them anymore and you read these letters as the "past", and "old love letters".
This broke my heart hun and brought back so many memories to me. I wish I could express how this made me feel. It was incredible, extrordinary and so real Susan. *sigh*
~Much love~
Lady Sarah
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this is so sad susan, i enjoyed the sentimental-ness (not a word, i know) of it. it just had that feeling of wanting to go back in time, or just thinking too much about the past. for example, last night i looked at my grade 8 yearbook, and just thinking about things too much. good poem susan, very well put
kayla*
PS i liked the last 2 lines a lot
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Sad piece you have written here, I never gave or have recieved letters, it just isn't in me to write one. Why I always give poems, but, when I read my own poems and think of that girl, the tears do come.
A great piece here.
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This is beautiful but sad. Unfortunately I know the feeling. Some love's last forever even if they end. I do know that myself. Lovely but sad write Susan.
Red -
This poem is so moving and heartfelt. It's amazing how much emotion we conceal within ourselves and not realise it until we come across something to trigger the memories. Beautifully written. Thanks for sharing!
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Beautifuly sad Susan you described loniness so well......
Sherry -
"Traces of love long ago that didn't work out right, traces of love in the night". Your sad poem reminded me of one of Elvis's songs that I loved. Very nicely penned, Sis! Reading old love letters when you're still with that person is soooo different from reading old love letters when you're not. In either case, it usually makes one feel sad that things are not now like they were then. Excellent poem!
Love Ya, Sis!
<3 Maureen -
Wow, Susan Amazing write
Love ya,
Karen
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old love letters...
bring back such memories of yesteryear...
some touching, some just simply good memories...
i have many old love letters from before my first wife and i got married... trouble is, i see when i read them, tendencies of what happened towards the end, in some cases 13 years after...
just never realized them at the time...
ok, so i rambled on a bit...
LOL
mike -
Susan, this is a very heart moving poem,
so gentle yet tragic are the words.
Wonderful piece.
Andrew -
Wow...Astounding Piece...
Oh Old Love Letters...They Exacerbate...They Bring Nothing But Pain...Pain...And Memories....And Tears...
I've Always Slipped Into My Inbox To Read My Ex-girl Friend's E-mails...And It Caused Me So Many Tears...
It's Hard...It Feels Harder When I Realise How Things Changed...She's Not The Same Anymore...She's Not The One Who Wrote This Words Once...She Died...Then Been Reborn...Nothing's The Same...
Anyway Nothing Last Forever Even Though Novembre's Rain [Guns N Roses
]
Thanks For Sharing
"Whyzie" -
Awww. This is a sad (but great. No, excellent) poem. Keep up the great work.
~Thig aka Shazzy -
don\'t touch
A wonderful write about a subject so sad. As a matter of fact , I am getting ready to post one soon about old love letters. I have it in a journal and it needs a few revisions. Maybe whoever that fellow is , and whereever he may be , he might be thinking of you now and then too
Reenie -
awww, so much sadness going around...
I know that I can picture myself doing this...my husband and I met on the internet, so I have all the emails that we wrote each other printed out, and we also mailed snail mail to each other, and I read those often, I even had to write over his letters with pen so that they do not fade as fast, and eventually I will have him rewrite every one of them to last longer, I know, I am a dork, but they will stay with me forever...
this was so sad, and so loving all at the same time...very lovely piece here susan ~~Jenn -
i still have a shoe box full of letters... i have read them... and i try to remember what i wrote... i cant... i wounder what subconscious desire i placed in them... it was more than that though... it still on my mind... this poem has so much power... a work of writing about writing for writers... well there you go...
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first off... that poem was about me not being able to lie and how one must lie, (for the most part) to get that he/she wants...
and this here made me cry almost... long story...
here it is in short form...
i moved... i kept in touch with one friend... happened to be female... we visited each other... asked me to take something of her's... i felt special... we beacme special... then she decides we were too far from each other... so then well stuff stops... communication that is...
but we wrote to each other alot... it was basically my first form of writing... but just recently we found each other again... and i am happy i still have this friend ship... so thats what this means to me... the tears were few but gravity had no affect... they rose...
this poem proves loves immortality...
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Excellent!
You have no idea how this touches me. I can relate so well. Letters can hold such great memories. This is well expressed, moving and full of emotion. Great job!..
~Kathy -
Oh Susan...this is fabulous! Unfortunately, I never got much for love letters from anyone, but I remember many times looking at an old photo and that breaks the heart just as bad. I actually got teary eyed from this!
~RaiN~
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