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I wrote this about my mother who has just recently went through a divorce. My father and mother had been married for 24 years, and dated for four years prior to getting married.

He left her for another woman!

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Shannon
I think your poem will touch alot of people. It is inspirational. Thanks I feel better!
mushy
this poem really inspires me to move on after the break up i had with the first man i have ever loved. just have to move on.
robin
this poem was very sweet and i loved it because it relates to me and wat i went threw with my first love from eighth grade till my senior year but he left with out a simple good bye and left me with a beautiful one year old baby but now i turned my life around hope for the best for him
Elka
I love that poem so much. There are so many ladies in that situation! And i can so relate to it! Thank you very much. It reminds me of my mother and all she had to go through! Tahnks again. That's great work because you can feel the emotions pouring out of the poem. I LOVE IT! Keep it up!

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Courage To Move On!!

They had been together for many a year,
Now all she can feel is fear.
She gave all that she could give,
It just wasn't the way he wanted to live.

He left without a backward glance,
Not even giving their love a chance.
She often wonders what she could have done,
To keep him from going on the run.

Now she is living all alone,
With nothing she can call her own.
She can barely make herself eat,
Wondering if her life will again be complete.

This woman is now moving along,
Building her courage, and becoming strong.
Time will heal her broken pride,
Toward the sunrise her heart will glide.



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More Visitor Comments (from the Voting form)

Julie
Awesome Poem. You really hit it. I lived with my spouse for 4 years and then married him, we've been married for 9 years seperated for the last 5. I still cry for him and us on a regular basis. Sometimes you just dont know how to let go and how to stop loving no matter the pain and the enormity of the realization that it will never be the same again.
TINA
i think it was sweet that you wrote a poem based on your mom. i like the poem. it was nice :)
Charlae
This is s how I feel. I was in an 8 year relationship and he walked a way like he never even knew me. Thank you for this poem!
Ruby
omg i love this poem me and my boyfriend of 6 years well were not doing good at all and i have a big fillin that this is the end ya know and i just dont now what to do i mean i have been with him for like ever we have shared like everything togeather and he is my best friend but latley he is givin me this attitude that he dosent want to be "tied" down and he wants to do what he want when he wants and he wont answer to me but me on the other hand its a sooo diffrent story! i have felt like our relation ship has been takin steps back for so long now that this is the end soon and i just dont know what to do him on the other hand will have a new person tomarrow i know this we have split for a couple of days before and he was like so fine with it when i seen him with another girl! i love him so much but it seems like he fills my love is a heavy burden he has to put up with! but i love you poem it means so much to me now i know iam not alone and that makes me fill so much better
zoe
this poem touched me i am only 17 but understand the words from an experience that i wish had never of happened. when i read the poem my heart bleeds and i feel as though i am the women alone and sad. this poem truely is a work of art
kim
reminds me of my broken relationship
christy
This poem touched me because my husband and I have separated also.
Andrea
Thank you.
jess
it was nice short and got to the point and reminded me about my x im only 20 and have spent only 3 years off an on with him but in that time we had and kid and did a lote and trying to get over it i am not good at writin poems but love to read them
deepayan
very good thought process
Lovely
I love this poem and i have a friend who's parents been together the same amount of time and her dad came home from work and packed all of his belongs and left her mom after twenty plus years. Her mother didn't know what to do and what was going on he left without a word. he didn't even say good bye! so the daughter, who was about to get married, my friend isn't getting married anymore. I think her parents marriage affected hers!
chris
i love this. this explains everything ive been through cept me and my ex werent together for a year. only a month. but when i was with her it felt like a year. i love this poem. i love this so very very much. amazing work.
Lanaia
This poem is excally how alot of people feel my self included . . as i read it . . i started to cry . . your poem is deep and has true meaning to it.
laura
that was a really sad poem and i really feel what she is going throw we all lost love one`s in our life guess thats just the way life go`s i know it hurts to see your mother like this but day by day she will get storng give her time
Lesley
Fantastic ! This is exactly how i feel, my husband has only recently left me we had been married for 2 years but together for 9. I just cried and cried and cried xxx
vuyiseka
This poem has tached me so much,coz its actually saying the same thing that happened to my relashionship and discribing exaclty the same way i am feeling right now.
RAQUEL
STOP IT. THIS IS A TRULEY TOUCHING POEM IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. WHO EVER THIS PERSON IS GODSPEED. AND I AM SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS! THIS IS A TRULEY TOUCHING POEM
Jennifer
Wonderful Poem! Me and my boyfriend of a yr and a half have been broken up for a lil over 2months already and we have no contact what so ever because he thought it'd be best for us and easier for us to move on but I realized how much I truely miss and love him and I can't stand it. I can't sleep and I can't eat. I can really relate to this poem alot.
Alyssa
I love this poem. It reminds me of what i'm going through at the moment and when i read this poem it helped me build up the courage to try and move on with my life.
leslie
this poem is so true and i think every one should read it
Alma
This is one of the best poems.
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