My lawyer told me NOT to take the first step out the door...now I am still waiting for a miracle to happen!!

love Tinka

sometimes it is as good to forget as to remember. Well crafted poem stirring emotions so deeply

No one likes to take that first step alone and it is why so many marraiges end when affairs begin, it gives the leaving partner a sense that they are not alone even if it is false. Great capture here Sue

Fee

Acute and so expertly penned, Sue. I can really feel this and yet you make it, with your flow of "easy" thoughts and words, sound so straighforward. Like that deepest, first cut... it is the same EVERY time, right?? Cos each and every situation is unique and EVERY time is a first time... Well done in your inimitable, down-to-earth style. TY Kate xx

Awesome write Dear Sue!
So very clever ... Once you remembered; but now you can't because maybe you're where you're meant to be right now!
Love, Suzie :-D

I'm glad you cannot remember now. Healing does take some time.

Good write!

Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)

You know, I wrote a paragraph in my novel Stone Creek Woman that goes something like this and I just think it so applies to your choice of poem here, "Positive feedback supplied to Stone Creek Woman from repeat clients told her these women who attended her camp not only once, but two and three times a season had abandoned their Prozac and recognized her earth-based medicine to be more effective than traditional prescriptions at a fraction of the cost. She liked to think of it as offering her healing wisdom for free, but the cost was ciphered by a willingness to "pad" into positive territory, telling the women, 'It is only the first step that costs here at this camp, and by the time you leave, you will have learned how to adjust your sandals in someone else's melon patch without being criticized, punished, or bruised.'" Yes, Sue, I wrote these words because The First Step is the Hardest...nice words you write here and they don't go unnoticed...

Sage

This is true for most of us.. but you know, I can remember if THEY walked away from me.. great little piece here Sue!

Myrna

well said.

Sue you hit on something we all seem to do. Erase as much as we can so as not to hurt too much. You are very perceptive...

Sue

From my experience..you don't even want to remember that part...

As the late and great Duke Wayne used to say " Get back on your horse...and ride again "

Peter

Perhaps it is a good thing, Sue. I sometimes think that we find reasons to leave just so we don't have to get involved or take the relationship to the next level. It is easy to walk away, but often it takes more courage to stay and get over our fears. I really could have read this poem in two ways, actually I did, but I thought that this way seemed so much more positive.
Take care,
Sherry