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if We Can Meet
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Friday, April 22, 2022    Rated "G" by the Author.
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-- If We Can Meet –

John Herlihy

 

If we cannot meet,

Then let us cry.

If we can meet,

Then let us try.

If we cannot meet,

Then let us sigh.

If we can meet,

On this promise rely.

If in future we meet,

Let us say aye.

If in future we never meet,

Let us ask why.

If before death we can meet,

Let us at least try.

If after death we can meet,

Then let us die.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Saturday 26 March 2022


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Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on May 12, 2022
'IF' IS A SMALL WORD WITH A HUGE MEANING. ALL THINGS ARE IN GOD'S HANDS...ESPECIALLY TRUE LOVE. SO, HOPEFULLY ON THIS OUR JOURNEY... WHAT WE WANT...'HE' WANTS. I LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS +INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed on April 25, 2022
John, your adoration is showing! Your longing expressed by your words touched my heart deeply. You are certainly a wordologist!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by JoAnne Cromp (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2022
Leaves the soul with many unanswered possibilities, imaginations and questions. Great write John ):

Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on April 24, 2022
wow, powerful words of longing and yearning, one way or the other
they shall meet, its written in the stars, :)

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on April 24, 2022
This seems deeply personal. A kind of sadness permeates the words. A relationship perhaps wished for but still unrequited. I don't know how else to respond to this John. Peace.... r

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 23, 2022
John,

A wistful thought about meeting someone who may have difficulty arriving at our doorstep.

While I enjoy those very few people that I personally meet these days, I'm finding that Internet contact with those very far away can suffice and even be intimate. I find that when death intervenes, most of those who believe in an afterlife wistfully believe that they will meet an intimate in that afterlife. Soothing in this life, but not necessarily available in some, theoretical, next.

I'm getting all the meeting I need, done before I'm done. And that will be enough for me.

Ron

Reviewed by Diana Wiles
Reviewed on April 23, 2022
A poem of deep longing…
and a lovely image to illustrate…

Diana…🍃


Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on April 22, 2022
Strong echoes of the angst of forbidden love.

Rebecca


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