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Breakup
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Saturday, November 12, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Remembering how it felt many years ago.

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Breakup

How withered the vine that once held love
How crumpled the heart that cries
How deceitful the lies that brought us down
How empty the place that was.

The road we dared to take was daunting
Our tasks were beyond our reach
Our resolve was tested much too soon
And much too soon we blinked.

But life goes on and like it or not
The moving finger has writ
Now all our tears cannot undo
The hurt that we have spent.

This too shall pass or so they say
Another climb another day
But just for now for this moment in time
I need to scream into that cold dark night.

 

 


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 14, 2016
I found this rhyming set of verses encapsulates all that those of us who have experienced breakups go through. Only the last line seems to indicate something different, at least from my perspective, of what kinds of emotions drive us at the end.

Ron

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on November 13, 2016
The deaths of relationships are so much harder to bear, I think, because the one you've broken from takes a part of you with them that you will never recover. They change you on elemental levels. Yet, they also pave the way for new,perhaps more rewarding, relationships. Life is an endless cycle of coming and going and give and take. Nicely written.

Rebecca

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on November 12, 2016
I often challenge the phrase: Better to have loved and lost than to never loved at all." My personal experience, as well as objective listening to many actors tell of their lost love through classroom exercises, I've come to the conclusion that love is such a volatile/delicate emotion we're hard wired for, it's difficult to avoid the stats: more sad ending than positive, lasting dedications to another mate, parents, siblings, God and even country. This is not to demean your writing, for know writing about loss is one of the best antidotes for the debilitation the accompanying sadness and many times, guilt, can have on one. I wish you well in your future dealings with love, for I know it can work (after 3 marriages, I've finally found a woman I've been with for 12 years and have realized nothing but the positive aspects of love. For me, the secret is "respect" for one another, and leaving behind any "agendas"...and especially the paper prison call marriage. This is one of your best poems.

Reviewed on November 12, 2016
A vivid portrait of the pain of lost love. Well penned, Ed

Reviewed by J. Roseline
Reviewed on November 12, 2016
"The hurt that we have spent", Cant agree more, but don't you think most of us have gone thru some kind of heart break or the other , the more innocent we are, it could be worst...JK

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on November 12, 2016
One can feel the pain, hurt and regret in this wonderful write. I agree with Jerry.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on November 12, 2016
Very, very, VERY well written poem of breaking up. Possibility the best one I have ever read. Scream!

Reviewed on November 12, 2016
Oh, the pain............real pain that can double you over or like a knife has been plunged into ones solar plexus!!! Scream if it helps!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on November 12, 2016
We have felt it; we have been there. What a heart-felt piece of writing. John


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