A Past Love

Once I found love

That was meaningful and true

But I have lost that person

And I can’t find you

As I remember the past

I can still recall

But what good are memories

If you don’t have that person anymore

I cannot touch my thoughts

Or the secret memories I hide

Enclosed in a chest

Buried deeply in my mind

I can no longer

Hear your voice

But I remember

How it sounds

I can no longer

Feel your touch

Because your presence

Is not around

As you are gone

Yet still here

Your not buried in the ground

So you can be anywhere

Yet I still feel this pain

As if your dead and gone

Somewhere you live your life

As I’m here and mourn

I tried to get over

I tried to get past

Only to torture myself

For wanting

What I can’t have

But I can’t bury feelings

That don’t want to rest

No longer with you

They’re all I have left

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This poem was written in 1998. It was inspired by feelings of separation towards a person you have yet to let go of.

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Laurie Lane's picture

We all encounter a love we wish still belongs to our heart. Nice poem.

Laurie Lane

Chinese Delivery's picture

you juss gotta get it out.....it's one of those get it off your chest poems....good though