If you think...

It took me less than 15 minutes to write this....I felt like the words were flowing from my fingers straight onto the keyboard. I didn't exactly have to think much. I suspect that my brain did not compose it. My heart did.

 

 

 

If you think...
It’s easy for me to carry on,
Find another man and live another life,
Build another home and be a good wife,
You’re mistaken...

If you think...
I have erased your memories from my mind,
Emptied my wardrobe of your clothes,
Thrown away your letters, those love notes,
You’re mistaken…

 
If you think...
I can spend an entire hour minus a thought of you,
I go to bed each night without shedding a tear,
And I don’t get flashes of you everywhere,
You’re mistaken…

If you think I don’t miss you, you’re mistaken
…mistaken, because I can’t look beyond you.

For you mean myself to me.
Yes, you still do…

 

 

Reviews

[Alba T.]

I understand this so completely, I felt like this ...
a couple of times...
thinking it I could never feel this again....
but I did and it was the most horrible feeling ever...
I was told to go on, forget about him, live your life...
But how could I, when he was my life...
Like it is written above... "For you mean myself to me"...
that's just how I felt.
Beautiful Poem.
Alba :-)

[Stacy]

I can feel the pain on this one and it has been over 10 years..........almost like we have been at the same place

[Partha]

That's painful, I have felt similar feelings myself. Though I have not experienced any such things in my life. I hope you haven't too. A depressive yet soothing write.

[Dave]

Great work. It flows so well. Deeply effective.

[Jonathan Bodnar]

thank you for the depression. 'ppreciate it. :DD

[L.G. Knight]

Some of our best poetry is never thought about never composed never structured in our mind but rather sort of vomited out of our soul.... this is very heart felt and I can tell that it is some amazing soul vomit....

lol I know thats not the best word for something so great but it is a fitting description of how it comes about I think.... I wrote a poem called puppet master and it was the best thing I have written yet I think it took me 15 maybe 20 minutes to write and I wrote so fast trying to keep up with the thoughts and they spewed out of my mind and onto the page... it was soul vomit at its best i think so when I say vomit i mean in a good way lol

~Frances~

[Kris Tate]

There is so much pain in this, it really makes you beg the question is it worth it at all?

[Prose-full]

wow..this is almost undeserving of the pen it's so good!...

[~crazy Beautiful~]

I have had this emotions a few times in my life, deep intense writing, the kind that flows without thought is always the best work, to me anyways, like straight from the soul
Nice work
thank you for entering my contest

[Rain]

There's no pain like the pain of lost love, but there's no greater love than the last love. It's waiting. Rain..

[Tania Leigh]

Wow, a wonderful write....I like when something just hits me and flows effortlessly into the keyboard, as this did for you....sometimes they turn out to be our favourite works :-)

Great piece!