Selfish

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    Selfish

    I should've known it was too good to be true,
     this dream I have been having so many years.
    I should've known I couldn't keep you.
    Nothing's changed, not even the tears.

    I was fortunate enough to be with you again,
    a weekend giving me new memories to cherish.
    I since have reunited with my old friend, pain,
    as I watch things I wanted start to perish.

    I wish I could change the sins of my past,
    make right all the things I did wrong.
    I know we'd lose all the things we've amassed;
    our glorious kids and life lessons, so long.

    I don't have the strength to lose you again,
    my heart can't handle that misery twice.
    Yet, I gambled anyway, a fool in the rain,
     at another losing turn at Liar's dice.

    I'm sorry I ruined things, destroyed your dreams,
    if I could only make it right with a wish.
    I only seem to rip things apart at the seams.
    Looks like they were all right calling me selfish.



    B Heath Harris/(c) 2009 

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    BrokenHeart2009 commented on Selfish

    10-07-2010

    I like this, and it is powerful, and full of images of lonliness.

    raziel69

    10/08/2010

    thank you, Jennie, for stopping by, your words are greatly appreciated...Raz

    Artie commented on Selfish

    08-22-2009

    The power of your emotions is so strong in this. I have felt this before, more than once unfortunately. I'm always amazed how life can throw you off course so qiuckly, and how it can also repair as well. Sometimes you have to ask, are you the kind of person who cries because it ended, or smiles because it happened. State of mind is everything. 10 from me.

    raziel69

    08/22/2009

    i was at a point where i had thought i had lost the one love i had wanted back for nearly 20 yrs, and i was dying again. thanks, man, i appreciate it.

    oldgoat commented on Selfish

    08-03-2009

    I feel your guilt and pain. We all have done things in our lives we wished we could take back and fix. Me, I have screwed up a lot. Seems when I do, it hurts the ones I love, that love me, ...it hurts us all... Great writing

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    Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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