“It’s written in the sands of time”,
“the writing’s on the wall.”
The things you know, and what you’ll find,
and facts you can’t recall.
The stories that we all do tell,
that no one else remembers.
At the beach, or picking apples,
or those icy cold Decembers.
Why is it that the little things,
are the ones that make you smile.
The things from thirty years ago,
off of the bottom of the pile.
I still remember her gentle touch,
the absolute softness of her skin.
I love her nose, her sensuous lips,
and her taste was sweet as sin.
The little things the way she stood,
that she could never tell a lie.
Her messy hair, her orange car,
she had an incredible set of thighs.
The way she always looked at me,
the love deep in her eyes.
It’s a shame she was just too good,
but that came as no surprise.
The smartest girl I ever met,
and she was in love with me.
And that I went and screwed it up,
is probably all she’ll see.
If I had a chance right now,
I would tell her she was the best.
The one that keeps me up all night,
that never lets me rest.
I’d love to say that I was wrong,
but I fear it’s way too late.
You let the good ones get away,
but should not let the great.
As I sit here pondering,
of what to her I’d say.
I choke on every thought I have,
I’ll never see that day.
But now I’m finally settled down,
and her I‘ll soon forget.
Then I said that thirty years ago,
and it hasn’t happened yet.
Author notes
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A contest entry
- A Lost Love by Corinthians13-4.
520 points, ended September 11, 2008, 29 entries
Silver trophy winner
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Most times it is the little simple things
that mean the mosst. Yet most time they
are the thing that most never realize to
respect until it is too late.
If I was you I would say how sorry and
wrong I was and pray for happiness once again.
Good luck in the contest.
Loveandblessings2u
Joyce
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I've said how sorry I am in two different poems i've posted here and am trying to come to grips with my unfinished business. But do not want disrupt her life in any way. After all I screwed her life up the first time around. Thank you for reading and commenting, Boog
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Wow 30 years is a long time and if i still feel this way in 30 years i dont know what im goin to do with myself lol!Crazy how some things never leave us... i belive once you love someone you always will not matter if you have moved on and let go.. the love is still there...Im sorry for your pain and loss...thank you for entering and good luck!
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a very good poem it's well written. such a meaningful heart felt poem, thank you for sharing. why not write another poem & add it?
thank you for entering my contest & best of luck.
--Blessed be--
Shacadia Shay -
Tears are threatening to well up in my eyes as I read this... because I wish that, thirty years from now, that he would say something like this. That he would write something like this -- even though he never was one for poetry. And it reminds me so much of where we are now, and where we used to be. If he ever came to feel this way, I wish with all of my heart that someone would make him aware... I would accept him in a heartbeat. This was a wonderful write and I thank you for it.
<3 Erin
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Aww. This was so sad, yet so beautiful. Good Luck in the contest.
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This is so wonderful but so sad. If only we could go back in time knowing what we know now, what couldn't we accomplish. Beautifully writen my friend with so much heart. That last stanza nearly broke my heart.
"But now I’m finally settled down,
and her I‘ll soon forget.
Then I said that thirty years ago,
and it hasn’t happened yet." - Beautiful,
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