by Shelbia C.
Member since:
November 19, 2006

No regrets

May 18, 2008 03:19 AM EDT (Updated: August 01, 2009 06:47 PM EDT)
views: 228 | comments: 38


If I'd died while you still loved me,
Then I would never know the pain
of watching you walk away
and being all alone again.
If I'd died in the beginning,
before I memorized your face,
then I wouldn't be a lost soul
tumbling through time and space.
If I'd died before I met you,
before I stumbled into bliss,
Then my heart would not be broken
And I wouldn't feel like this.
Yet pain has it's purpose
And I'd do it all again.
I can't regret the day I met you
Because I'd never lived 'til then.

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Comments: 38

René Allen May 18, 2008, 5:09am EDT
Shelbia ~ I do enjoy your "heart-felt" and introspective poetics. Very nice work here.

Blessings ~
Rene
Bonnie F. May 18, 2008, 5:11am EDT
Absolutely beautiful, thoughtful, sad and happy. You have evoked all these emotions. Wonderful poetry.
Payam Sudhakaran May 18, 2008, 5:13am EDT
Shelbia, truly melancholic.... You know how to catch emotions and express them in a lucid style.. a toucing poem, indeed..
Katie R. May 18, 2008, 8:11am EDT
Another very well written one ...
Shelbia C. May 19, 2008, 12:28am EDT
Thank you, Rene. Your comments are always much appreciated.
Shelbia C. May 19, 2008, 12:29am EDT
Bonnie, I am glad you were able to see all that. I was afraid I was only conveying the sad part.
Shelbia C. May 19, 2008, 12:30am EDT
Thank you for the compliment, Payam. I especially appreciate the lucid part. I always worry that I might not be.
Shelbia C. May 19, 2008, 12:32am EDT
Thanks again, Katie. I am glad you liked it.
Elsie Duggan May 19, 2008, 12:53am EDT
Shelbia, you must have lived my life, because this poem says it all, thank you , and I hope it is true for you too.
lynn a. May 19, 2008, 12:56am EDT
Shelbia, This is painfully beautiful and so understandable. You have written something special here.
Samantha H. May 21, 2008, 8:56pm EDT
I'm very impressed with your ability to convey a whole range of emotions all rolled into one, and in such a short poem! You have talent. Keep it up.
Shelbia C. May 21, 2008, 9:19pm EDT
You ladies really make me feel good. Thank you.
amy s. Aug 21, 2008, 8:05pm EDT
Just dropping by to say hi hope you are having a great day.
Sharon P. Aug 21, 2008, 8:58pm EDT
Beautiful.
Cheryl B. Aug 21, 2008, 10:46pm EDT
Shelbia,
I truly do enjoy your style of poetry. Thank you for sharing your wonderful poems with us. :)
Ladybounty ~. Aug 29, 2008, 11:24pm EDT
Shelbia...very nice...deeply touching and full of love
To love is to trust is to live - without love, life has no meaning.

This poem captures all of that.
Dan H. Sep 1, 2008, 3:50pm EDT
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Kathryn E. Sep 4, 2008, 10:48pm EDT
very heartfelt and very good.
Glome . . . Sep 4, 2008, 11:47pm EDT
Shelbia, you are really improving in your poetry. This was very good and interesting to meditate on.
Sakuragirl S. Sep 5, 2008, 1:38am EDT
That is such a wonderful poem, Shelbia!
Thank you for having writen it!
Jennifer R. Sep 5, 2008, 8:10am EDT
Nicely put. It is better to have loved than to have never loved at all.
Terry M. Sep 7, 2008, 3:59am EDT
Very touching!
Spencer T. Sep 7, 2008, 7:41pm EDT
Total emotioinal flow
I am aware you know
from the very begin
it was you till the end.

I should have died when you loved me.

Good stuff
Pamela K. Sep 9, 2008, 4:54pm EDT
Shelbia, thank you very much for sharing.
sheila ~the hapless housewife~ j. Sep 9, 2008, 6:10pm EDT
Very powerful poem!
DrewBerry L. Sep 10, 2008, 8:19am EDT
Beautiful poem Shelbia - I love the line > PAIN HAS IT PURPOSE < It is so true. It reminds me of the Garth Brooks song THE DANCE.... He could have missed the pain, but then he ultimately would have missed the dance in the process..

Lovely!
Adina P. Sep 10, 2008, 1:58pm EDT
beautiful !
Yvette F. Sep 10, 2008, 9:44pm EDT
Powerful poem. I love the last line....it gave me goosebumps. It's like that saying.... Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Angela A. Nov 19, 2008, 2:10pm EST
You're a genuine artist.
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
Marsha S. Jan 24, 2009, 2:15pm EST
Just letting you know your content has reached 25 comments and has therefore been removed from ~3,000 Here We Come!~
Jennifer Lee Mar 2, 2009, 9:03pm EST
The end is most powerful. Thank you for sharing in our group.

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Linda T. Mar 2, 2009, 9:46pm EST
Very heartfelt.
Gene P. Mar 26, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
Thanks for posting your content to the group Whatever!
Janie E. Apr 4, 2009, 3:30am EDT
Beautifully written!!
Terry Collett Aug 1, 2009, 3:02pm EDT
Excellent poem. Typo? than I wouldn't be a lost soul= than =then?
Shelbia C. Aug 1, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
Thanks, Terry. I missed that one.

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