If You're Leaving
by
Anthony Lane Stahlhut
(Age: 47)
copyright 09-11-2005
Age Rating: 7 to 127
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If you're leaving, then you've already left me.
For you couldn't leave unless you decided to go.
And If love is not a good enough reason to try,
then the answer, I do not know!
I always thought we were happy together.
A fork in the road, I kept going on.
But your direction seemed to be turning,
Now I don't know where you have gone.
I look for you around every corner.
Always hope to see you in the moonlight.
But it seems I just keep on looking,
for you are never in sight.
I still hold on to you in my memories.
In my mind you're always by my side.
I dream it could be, you together with me,
to finish life's final ride.
I awake to find I'm still in the nightmare.
That the dream is not reality.
Head held in my hand, for I can't understand.
Just how all this could be.
Something that felt so perfect.
Could end in such dismay.
I am left with no solid answers.
Heart broken by what you did not say.
So if you're leaving you've already left me.
You couldn't leave unless you decided to go.
And if love is not a good enough reason to try,
then the answer, I do not know!
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A picture speaks a thousand words...and then some. And how much more so does silence, eh? Sometimes I look at a homeless person, or a wanderer and I wonder...what happened? What's their story? Why? Life is so full of fun and surprises...what could be so bad that they gave up? I guess I'm just so stubborn that I will never know, because I never give up!
This is a very good poem and the picture says alot about being alone in the world especially when someone you love takes a different fork in the road (just like you said). Everything seems good except for the thing David mentioned about your and you're change that and you have a perfect piece of art...again!!! lol
Why do some people just drop out of society, with no explanation? I'm sure we will never know.
This is a very sobering piece, which makes us ask a lot of questions, but with no answers.
I really like this poem.
I do think, however, that it would have a better flow if you completed each thought in a single line.
Example:
"If your leaving, then you've already left me."
"For you couldn't leave unless you decided to go."
Also, you keep using the word 'your', when it should be 'you're'.
I'm going to keep bugging you about this until you get it right. lol (See what you're (not 'your') doing to me? I'm starting to sound like your (not 'you're) old English Teacher)
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