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When We Took Our Vows
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A letter my first husband will never see.

Reindeer: If you should happen to read this, it was your poetry that inspired and encouraged me to write this. Most of us carry some 'baggage' of sadness and bad memory's, and this is a good way to 'dump' them and make way for something better to fill that space.

When We Took Our Vows


When we took our vows
I thought it would last,
that was never to be.
Over twenty long years
we shared our lives,
made children
raised a family.
Though I loved you
Indifference I suffered,
my mind didn’t matter,
that’s not what you wanted,
just my body
and any would do.
You walked over my dreams,
broke my heart into pieces,
just using
and mentally abusing,
till I lost respect for you.
Do you know
how close I came
to ending it all
right under a train?
I wonder,
would you even care?
You hated your mother
lacked respect for your sisters,
I guess that’s what
coloured your view.
The baggage you carry
weighs down your soul,
destroys and cripples,
I am sorry for you.
Now it is you
who is bitter and sad,
not your fault,
you claim,
and you say,
he took me away from you.
But deep in your heart
you know,
that before he came,
you had already lost me,
long, long ago.


Jackie S Brooks ©
26 July 2003


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 Reviews of "When We Took Our Vows"
Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on July 26, 2003
Jackie, I'm stunned! This could be my write, same thing happened....I'll have to get hold of my emotions. Beautifully expressed for such a sad topic!

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on July 26, 2003
You might have thought about it dear, but you are here to write about it and that makes you a winner.

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on July 26, 2003
Mental abuse is a tough one
Heartfelt write
Thanks for sharing.....

Reviewed by Erica Ivory
Reviewed on July 26, 2003
Ahhh.. This is so sad.. To share so much and lose it .. because one cannot love .. Excellent sad write

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya
Reviewed on July 26, 2003
Touchy write....this touched my heart straight.....BHUWAN

Reviewed on July 26, 2003
Oh my, I swear, I got chills when I read this, Thank you for being inspired and also this excellent poem, I am shaking here, you really got to me with this, Excellently and wonderfully expressed,

Walk in Beauty,

Reindeer

Reviewed on July 26, 2003
heartwrenching write! :( ((((HUGS)))) and love, your texas friend, karen lynn.


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