All I Ever Wanted Was to Love You
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Aug 4, 2022
A divorce poem to an ex long after the divorce:
All I ever wanted was to love you
As when I saw you first from far away.
But then it was my sweet mistake to have you
Too young to hold the demons long at bay.
For years I hated you, for only hate
Could cauterize the wounds that would not heal,
And gorged myself on fantasies to sate
A hunger I could neither suage nor feel.
Eventually, we both found other loves
And settled into other lives. And yet
The past like some unquiet ghost still moves
Within, too fraught with longing to forget.
We have moved on, as is mature and wise.
But love, though long abandoned, never dies.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/allie2.html. For more poems about divorce, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/divorcepoems.html . To receive an email from me each week via medium.com, go to https://medium.com/subscribe/@nickgo_89269 .
Video and Audio Music: Mysterious Sorrows. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
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