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The Chance Meeting
by Felix LeRoy Perry → (All Poetry by Felix LeRoy Perry)
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Have you ever met an old lover on the street that you never got over and had to pretend that all was right in your world...as you crumbled like sand inside?


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The Chance Meeting

 

I met you on the downtown sidewalk

Outside that little café we once adored

You still looked every bit as pretty

And I knew from your love I wasn’t cured

 

You ask me how I’m doing now

I smile and say I’m getting by

You ask me if I’m truly happy

I don’t tell you that I often cry

You ask me have I found someone

I have to tell a little white lie

You ask me if I’m ever sorry

I just hang my head and sigh

 

You say you’re getting married

I choke out that I wish you well

You invite me to your wedding

I nod but want to scream and yell

You give me a friendly farewell hug

My heart just seems to stand still

You say goodbye and walk away

 

In summer’s warmth I feel a chill

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "The Chance Meeting"
Reviewed by Sanja Dayslink (Reader)
Reviewed on April 14, 2008
This puts me in mind of one of my favorite songs "Auld Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelburg. If you know the song, you will understand what I am saying. But like that song, you have my heart yearning for you to console your being and let you rest your head on my shoulders. Well said, Fee.

Sanja xo

Reviewed by Sheila Roy
Reviewed on April 13, 2008
Thank God I've never experienced this. It sounds like it makes the soul ache. Strong emotion in this piece, Fee. Well done!
Sheila

Reviewed by P-M Terry Lamar
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
What a painful meeting! So real and described so perfectly.
Fantastic.
Terry

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
I can relate to this, Fee. Nicely done. Thank you. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Morning Star
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
Wow your words captured this chance meeting beautifully!
No this has never happened to me but
I know of a few friends that have gone through
One of this event!!
I imagine its very emotional!
Excellent write!!
Peace Love And light...Morning star

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
Love can't have a muted voice.

Reviewed by Susan de Vegter
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
"In summer’s warmth I feel a chill"

does this feeling ever get past any of us? If we tell the truth, it doesn't.It's sad that we can't have everyone we desire. That is one of life's trials. This one causes a flutter in my stomach.

Blessings and love,
Susan

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
you have captures this event so well with all the emotion and feelings

Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
great poem
yes it can and does happen.........but sometimes you smile and thank god you got away!! lol
your music/poem is lyrical and touching!!! :) :) pax A

Reviewed by Christine Alwin
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
It is hard to answer the Whys at times,,,sometimes they remain unanswered forever.... Wonderful write Fee :)Christine

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
Those chance meetings often truly bring back many memories, and your poem describes them very well.

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on April 12, 2008
Fee, lucky you!
Thanks for that little peek inside the life of the lucky (?) ones.

Georg

Reviewed by Dawn Anderson
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Regrets...we all have them. Well written piece about lost love.

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
i experienced this some years ago, so this poem rekindled those feelings ... well done, Felix ...

Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Oh, Fee, well done! This anguish could not have been expressed with more clarity. This one begs to be published!

Ted

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
A very bittersweet chance meeting that would have been better served to have avoided. Sometimes we must live with the hand fate deals, sometimes we wish we did not have to....

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Myrna Badgerow
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Well I can't say this has ever happened to me.. but I am sure that it can be a mixed blessing for most...
Myrna

Reviewed on April 11, 2008
ahhh memories of lost love, and love that never ever dies. Been there... excellent write many can relate to.

Reviewed by Deborah Munson (Reader)
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
As Always, Writing and Expressing as only you can do Fee. Every word ebbs and flows tugging at the heart. Deborah:)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Price
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Chilling regrets, but you are alive, barely. Sad, but penned great. Liz

Reviewed by Gianetta Ellis (Reader)
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Sensitivity and romanticism spill forth from this bittersweet write - you capture the intricacies of the heart very well.

Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Fee,
I went looking for mine :) and I found him, and it was a 4 years disaster :(
I Love The Dickens Outa Him Thou. I have known him for 28 years. He is a womanizer. I can't blame him for looking-but sharing? Well I can't have that because I am a very selfish woman :) so I loved him enough to turned him loose on all the lovely ladies out there. He tried to be loyal. lol
Your Poem Is Yearning With Hope, and still sad. Your font is beautiful.
Embraced ~ Embrassé
Vickie

Reviewed by Larry Lounsbury
Reviewed on April 11, 2008
You capture the moment of a broken caress.

Reviewed on April 11, 2008
I think all we "adults" have had a similiar experience. You wrote about it so well my friend and the ending line is awesome.
Hugs,
Marcia

Reviewed on April 11, 2008
Sadness, in moving lines of what could have been - excellently expressed, (((Fee))).

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.


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