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A Love Story

September 14, 2011
By BarefootInTheWoods SILVER, New Salisbury, Indiana
BarefootInTheWoods SILVER, New Salisbury, Indiana
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Favorite Quote:
"Demon Pox!" ~Will Herondale


Here’s a simple story
About this girl and a boy
It’s just like all the other ones
About the one that got away

They met late in April
One bright day after school
Like magnets they were pulled together
Tugged by some invisible tether

Sleepless nights
Playful fights
And flirting all the while
It happened fast
And just like that
To think it started with a smile

Summer came, so very soon
They were dating by the fifth of June
One date and then a month apart
She already figured he’d break her heart

On a sultry night
It reached its height
In a darkened barn
In each other’s arms
She’d never seen such a beautiful sight

Then in August
It turned to dust
It simply fell apart
It hurt, but hey she already knew he was going to break her heart.


The author's comments:
This is true. He did break my heart. But I'm healing.

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on Sep. 19 2011 at 8:27 pm
BarefootInTheWoods SILVER, New Salisbury, Indiana
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Favorite Quote:
"Demon Pox!" ~Will Herondale

Thanks! I wrote this three days after he broke up with me. I never got an explanation, just a sorry, bye. I knew how it would end, but I had hoped to change that. Oh well, the past is the past. Thanks for your comment! I'll go listen to that song now!

on Sep. 19 2011 at 8:20 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
"il piu nell' uno," (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" ~Emily Dickinson

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain"
~Kahlil Gibran

I wish you rapidity of healing and perhaps a discovery of new love!

on Sep. 19 2011 at 8:19 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
40 articles 2 photos 1632 comments

Favorite Quote:
"il piu nell' uno," (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" ~Emily Dickinson

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain"
~Kahlil Gibran

I thought this poem was rather sweet, I think because it's a simple story which acknowledges its simplicity; few poets know to do that. Tying in the months gave the reader a sense of time and the way it affects love. That second to last stanza admitted that every story has its pinnacle, yet the last shows the reader that the subject was always aware that it would end. Rather like DeVotchka's song "How it Ends" (listen to that!). Memorable, this is.