I didn’t cry as you walked out the door
looking back, not wanting to go
your own tears hidden behind a facade
I didn’t care that I’d hurt you so
I thought of the good times, gone forever
the happiness we had known
but the bad times rushed to overrule
the once fond mem’ries of times long gone
Someday there would come a time
when I’d sit alone, with love no more
and weep at our lost dreams, but...
I didn’t cry when you walked out the door
And I’m sorry now for all the pain I caused
… and I cry for the loss we share
Dee Garner
©March 7, 2009
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I really like this-and quite a few of your other poems. You have a way of saying things simply but exploring deeper too
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i may not be seing right n everyday lfe but i can leaVE A ROSE ;f thanks dee.
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What was the picture and what did the host mean with her comment? I thought it was a good poem...but hey, can't win um all..
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Thanks for the comment, Sis. I don't understand either quite what she meant by her comment... go to the contest page and read it, maybe you'll see what she means ???
Dee
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nope... this is not what I am looking for. Too words I think... try condensing it... see if it sounds better. Take out anything uneccesary to the story you're trying to tell.
Thanks for the entry! Better luck next time!
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This hit real close to home... knowing, now, it was the things I didn't do that caused me and others to suffer most. In life, I didn't cry, but in verse I did.
Sincerely,
Leo Long
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i think that sometimes we become emotionally numb to love, and all the pain it brings to us. we might not cry at the time of loss, but it does cacth us up and the tears flow in their own time. maybe that is a better way, it gives us time to adjust to the heartache and the loss that is there. a good poem.
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This speaks to the heart. I can very much relate to the thoughts and feelings you're conveying. Very lovely and so well written
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A beautiful poem written from your take on the picture.
I agree with Just4u for a love to work there has to be love and understanding and communication, if they are not there by either one of the couples love can die and the other is left bereft of the void it leaves in their lives, love has to be nurtured to survive, once they walk out that door there's no going back.
I enjoyed reading your lovely poem Dee and can relate to some of it.
Love Joan
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Somehow that held back is a saving grace in the here and now too. I understand this all too well. And it speaks to the heart.
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For a relationship to fully work the hearts and well as the minds have
to be connected. As long as there are separate dreams, then to there
will come eventually...separate paths.
It is through the breaking of our own hearts than we know that
real love once lived there...
Eddy
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Regret
without amends is futile. This is a good poem, and will surely touch many people who put pride and self before love. That is probably most of us. Well done and good luck!
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The pain of tears will stop
SOMETIME SOMEWHERE THIS HAPPEN TO MANY. TOU WROTE THE TRUTH AND MAYBE YOUR POEM WILL WAKE MANY UP TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULD OF HELD ON AND NOT LET LOOSE.
i LOVE YOU SIS. TIME FOR MY ITCHING MEDICINE AGAIN.. LOVE YOU
ME LIL OLE ME
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This is a fine piece of poetry you have written.
Full of such sadness, one might question ever falling in love at all
Seriously though really good, thanks for sharing.
Best to you in all you do.
Tony
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