Monday, November 9, 2009

THE END OF THE ROAD


As you travel and I stay
I watch and wonder how I manage to let you go at all
I would rather be the leaver than the one left
Send me a memory
Send me your love

I’m lonely here tonight in the silence
No memory, no love
Your heart is too out of reach even for this passionate one
I ache for you one thousand miles away
I’m tired of being alone and in love with a traveler
I’m disquieted by my own heart, swelled in lust and desperation

I could hold onto your jacket as you head out the door
Next time
I could beg, beg you to stay
Traveling lover, you would still leave
Less of me would be here, left
Less of me is left

Cease holding me, leave me be
Loving myself less and less for staying
My soul steps me toward the door
Preserving what's left
I leave.

-Victoria Hart

8 comments:

  1. This is just a poem...not my reality.

    --V

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  2. Wow - This poem should be a song! Well, it is already but I mean set to music! GREAT writing! Thanks for joining my blog - hope you stop in this week to read my teary salute to Vets!

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  3. Thanks so much for the compliment! and for stopping by.

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  4. Victoria -- This is a very powerful poem. I love this stanza:

    Cease holding me, leave me be
    Loving myself less and less for staying
    My soul steps me toward the door
    Preserving what's left
    I leave.

    It may not be your reality, but it comes from some part of you, making it more than just a poem...in a very good way:~)

    I also agree with SuZen that this should be put to music. It does sing.

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  5. Thank you Sara, I suppose some of it is my Mother's reality and mine as I observed her heartache with my father's habits. I don't feel the song, but I'm happy that you both feel that it sings, I love that.

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  6. Beautiful - I think that everyone can relate to this poem at one time in their life. Thank you for sharing. You have touched my heart once again my friend!

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  7. Although this is not your experience, so much heart and so much soul put into it. Beautiful and thanks for sharing!

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