Love Long Lost
By Adam L. Stanley, poem incomplete
For most people, it will happen only once in a lifetime
and by the time they realize it ...
Love, long lost
the kind of love that makes you giddy on the inside
that inspires you to do things you would never have done
to think things you have never thought
to feel things you have never felt before
Love, long lost
that makes you forget all logic and reason
it confuses you, making you surrender all
your passion overwhelms you and you feel trapped
unable to breath and afraid to die
Love, long lost
you miss her so much it hurts
though countless attempts at reunion
on both her and your account fail
and other relationships blossom
Love, long lost
romance came and blinded you
made you think love was not enough
made you reach out for someone else
and created a permanent misery
Love, long lost
the humanity of never being satisfied
not knowing how good it was
how good it could be
the pain that would come with her absence
Love, long lost
no matter the miles of separation
nor the resolve of each to move us
the bond always there
pulling, tugging, distracting
Love, long lost
not knowing the future, yet crippled by the past
fearing we/her/me/us would never be
or worse never be as good as the first time
though nothing else will ever come close
Love, long lost
pained by communication yet longing
for a contact of any kind
a phone call or a letter, returned
needing to hear the voice or smell her perfume
Love, long lost
desiring that she only be happy
even if no longer contented by me
that tears are no more and joy overwhelms her,
though I be anguished with thoughts of her love for another
Love, long lost
this kind of love happens only once in your life
And once you lose it, it's long lost
And it hurts like a constant piercing of your heart
more than any poem, finished or otherwise, can explain.
A poem I found online.
Makes the pain more acute.
Wish that things be different.
Yet ...