My sweaty palms stick to the Lecturn,
my shaggy hair hides my face,
my cheeks begin to burn,
in my chest, my heart starts to race.
You always told me to take chances...
The rain fell,
but our spirits were never dampened.
The harder they fought us, the more our love swelled.
and We did not stop to question, or make amends.
We thought they couldn't stop us...
When you left you took a piece of me,
but i knew you had to go.
you set off to the east scared; but free,
and i tried to accept life's natural flow.
It took everything i had not to beg you to stay...
You came home newly adorned,
the smell of new world's lingered in your once familiar embrace.
You were the college man about which i had been warned,
and there was a new confidence in your face.
I had to move on...
I love you once, a thousand times,
but there were only so many realities, around which we could dance,
and though i have turned my heartache into rhymes,
I will never regret, taking that chance.
I have loved...
Author notes
This poem is about an ex, who was a senior when i was a freshman, he went away to college and we broke up, it hurt, but he is still one of my best friends. Love never leaves, it merely changes.
A contest entry
- Is it really better to have loved and lost? by A Soul Torn Asunder.
380 points, ended January 3, 2007, 25 entries
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great words
awsome this poem was great sweet vocabulary i had to read once i read the title you have good way of making the wrods right together to make music for the mind.
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Wow.
I am blow away by this poem. I think that this is the truest poem I have ever read, and I love the fact that you can realate something so emotional in such beautiful rhyme. I was a sophmore in highschool and I fell for a junior in college. Yes, it was stupid, but it was one of the most wonderful times in my life. Thank you for the entry, and I am truly humbled by this poem. Thank you for entering, and for your reminder that the pain is nothing compared to the beauty of the love that was once shared. This poem is truly beautiful. I must say that the part that hit closest to home was the line about there "being only so many realities around which we could dance." There was something wonderful about that
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