Great Surprise

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    • ListninEar
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    Great Surprise

    I never chose to fall out of love with you
    it came with great surprise
    it happened as I'd reach out for your hand
    and feel it not reach back for mine
    I sensed your great pain and tried my best to love it all away
    I'd grab your arm, smile, curl up next to you
    but somehow you'd stopped smiling back and I couldn't even tell

    It came with great surprise to hear
    you didn't want me to share my thoughts, my day, my memories
    didn't want to laugh and eat at my table--unless it was at my expense
    didn't want to sleep in my bed, retreat to the web instead
    I sensed it, but I'd shake the thought, trying harder to get through to you
    how much I loved you....
    but you only walked away; I prayed

    It came with great surprise to see you look for comfort elsewhere
    cheated on first with the bottle; then found others who could share your hate of me
    I felt you slipping, but you were already gone
    I fought as hard as I could to just hold on
    but one person can not carry love alone, it's meant for two.

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    HarverTomsson commented on Great Surprise

    10-13-2009

    The exit side of live is the bitter pill. As distance diminishes with intimacy, satisfaction finds entrance. then as distance grows, love vainly tries to stem the tidal currant to escape from intimacy. the numb thumb is held true, but the dike wears away leaving love's soldier drowning in abandonment. The great surprise comes because the signals of betrayal were ignored for what they were, and reinterpreted for something less chilling. Some naivity should be allowed all through life.

    ListninEar

    10/21/2009

    I'm not exactly sure what this meant...sounds like maybe I inspired you to write your own...!?

    ListninEar

    10/25/2009

    Wow, I just saw that you rated me a 10, unbelievable...what an honor!!!

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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