I waited for you with bated breath In hopes that once again, We could share that oneness we knew when we were friends. But has time and distance erased The closeness we once knew? Because I feel so very alone, Even though I am here with you. You offer me love I cannot touch As I sit drowning outside in the rain. The simplest things matter so much Can a voice from the past ease my pain? Our wandering feet took separate paths Straying far from the ones we once knew, but I thought I might unlose myself Once I found my way back to you. But my journey was over even as it begun, And hot tears burn a trail down my face, Because some broken hearts can't be re-strung And true friends are too hard to replace. But what good is a heart that you cannot touch? Or a hand that you reach for in vain? Must I run from the place where I once sought my shelter To stand shivering alone in the rain? Sometimes old clocks can't be unwound. Are time and love ever truly free? Each journey is long and painful As I long for how things used to be. |
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Comments: 32
This was quite a love story poem that didn't work out. *smiles*
A "true friend" would be able to eventually forgive and accept you as you are, as you accept that person as they are. It's OK and fine for "true friends" to argue or disagree, from time to time. If a friend expects you to agree with everything, every belief or emotion, then... how could that be a true friendship? Perhaps one of you knows or values true friendship, but have not yet recognized the reality of that true friendship.
Sometimes your writing is so emotional that I honestly wonder and often worry about you. So, in effect, your writing is very successful, whether it be fictional or [sadly] true.
Karen
Powerful as always.
Good stuff.
I do think you were a bit heavy with your metaphor.
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Your poems often read like a message in a bottle thrown out to sea in the hope that someone will find and read. Expessed wonderfully.