you were for me
a suddenness
unwarranted
you were for me
a treasure, and
a curse
you were for me
a changing day
unheralded
who left me better
and then left me
worse
Tag: Breakups
Exaggerated
She went; the color left his world.
His small-town life of big-time dreams
Was squashed beneath the weight of grief,
How bad a breakup often seems
For there, surrounded by the gray,
He saw no light and heard no call:
Exaggerated though this sounds,
To him, it was not so at all
A trivial domestic mess?
No. Life is naught
When purposeless
To share is human:
Supposed to Be
The way that it’s supposed to be,
We’d be out there together;
We’d watch watch her grow concurrently,
Then loose her from the tether that is us.
That’s “we”, not “me” and “you”:
A family’s what we had,
But now, that’s all a memory,
That went from good to bad —
You took my hand and I took yours.
We loved behind these folding doors
We’ve folded up and stored away –
For there’s nothing to hide now
I see you in our daughter’s eyes:
I do not think you realize
That she still holds out hope for us
That you have smashed to pieces —
The way that it’s supposed to be
I’m here for you, you’re here for me;
But there’s no “here” where we can meet,
Your smash-and-grab job’s quite complete
You lost respect for me and so
There’s nowhere left for love to go
No ground left to find empathy
The way that it’s
Supposed
To
Be
To share is human:
A Far And Favored World
Come to a far and favored world,
Where guide-less friends can meet
To walk among the singing stars
And smell the apples sweet
That hang from rich and luscious boughs
Along both hill and fen —
Yes, come to a far and favored world,
Where we can start again.
Come to a red and dusky place
Within the inner rim,
Where music’s sung by everything,
A universal hymn —
Come to river, come with me,
The sunrise never ends,
Come to a red and dusky place
Where we can still be friends.
Once, we sang for our supper when
These worlds were unexplored —
Once, you could trust the things I said,
And you could rest assured
That I would be where I said I was.
Yes everything was fine:
But that was before the great divide.
The fault – all of it’s mine.
Here on a far and favored world
It is my fate to stay
In all of it I wish that you could see,
But you won’t come today,
For everything broken, all that’s lost
Wherever all you are —
For here on a far and favored world
Your favor will
Stay far
To share is human:
Love Spasm the Eighth, Part 2
Sometimes I was the one aggrieved,
At times, the one aggrieving –
With her, the fault lays all with me:
Tale told, without deceiving
I chased her, summertime to fall.
Tore down her barriers of doubt;
But once I got beyond her wall,
I couldn’t get back out –
And panicked when I found back there,
That once she loved, she loved for real:
And that was more, much more than I
Was then prepared to feel.
Although I disappointed her,
To work so long to leave so fast,
The same thing would be done to me,
Before much time had passed.
And so we all will live to get,
Our turn at each role in the play:
I’m sure that she’s long over it,
But wish I had not been
That way
To share is human:
The Holidays They Never Took
The holidays they never took surround her in the night;
The many reasons that she found to not do what was right –
The beach they never walked on, with its still unopened shells,
That she must see alone,
For he’s now there with
Someone else
To share is human:
i only once
i only once beside you once inside you once then grieved you once and in a thrice the tears of twice, in days of ice believed you once for every once i should have once but lost you once for i'm a dunce
© Andriy Bezuglov | Dreamstime.com – Girl in red hood
To share is human:
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a family lost in walkways and mazes of intent a couple who began with time that ended up misspent on labyrinths of blaming, mid flames to resurrect, and all that comes of love, when two have lost track of respect
