How Can You Love Me?

How can you love

this restless woman child?

Stubborn, needy,

constantly changing,

so sure, yet so afraid,

pretending to be so strong,

but crying inside,

looking for strength

and running when I find it;

Restless and wild,

I race with the wind,

searching for the answers

to questions I don't even know;

I dance in my dreams

and run from truth,

pretending I am so sure;

But I'm frightened and lonely,

I've lost my way;

I don't know why you stay with me

each and every day.

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Nic P. Nov 14, 2006, 10:43pm EST

Cheryl, it's always a pleasure

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Corina Carrasco Nov 14, 2006, 11:31pm EST

I like this woman. She reminds me of me. Only I don't have anyone that stays with me. Thank you for these wonderful words, wonderful portrait.

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Wendy S. Nov 14, 2006, 11:58pm EST

I enjoyed this one, very much.
My favorite line:
"I dance in my dreams
and run from truth."

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Brad (the Boy Wonder) W. Nov 15, 2006, 12:20am EST

Cheryl this is beautiful, and it should strike a note with a lot of people. It did with me.

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Richard Melendez Nov 15, 2006, 12:28am EST

Cheryl... a restless and wild woman child... forever changing and searching is why he would stay. There is a vibrancy and life in that woman, and I believe she is you. Lovely poem.

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Jennifer F. Nov 15, 2006, 1:15am EST

How can he not love you? We all are so glad you are back! What a beautiful trip you must have had. I think the main killer of a marriage is boredom and that will never happen with your marriage.

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Ludie Gee Nov 15, 2006, 9:01am EST

its not how or why it just is: Love!!
x

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Virginia M. Nov 15, 2006, 9:17am EST

Smiles- Who CAN describe excatly what, or how, of love?.....This is my favorite line:
"I race with the wind,

searching for the answers

to questions I don't even know"

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Edward Nudelman Nov 15, 2006, 9:30am EST

Superb Cheryl. The needy and vulnerable are always more lovable!

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Cat Givens Nov 15, 2006, 9:57am EST

Cheryl, you are so damn lovable and this poem proves it!
Heartfelt, I too question my husband as to why.....
He just smiles. Never a dull moment.

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debbie roeser Nov 15, 2006, 10:34am EST

This is great. So emotional, so from the heart.

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Mark Jepsen Nov 15, 2006, 6:24pm EST

Those who pose these questions are no more needy or vulnerable than those who don't, but they are willing to acknowledge those traits. That in and of itself makes them all the more lovable for their honesty, because the rest are just swimming in that big river in Egypt... or something like that.

I'm pretty sure you're irresistable, Cheryl. (Though I have been called a shameless flirt!)

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