Familiar

Familiar Like the voice I once knew Like me and you And everyone else But her Love Is for both of us And I can believe Almost anyone But her Feelings Like I once felt For you no more That you still feel for me So why her? I don’t understand I can’t comprehend Yell at me please Whisper in my ear Show me through your eyes Why you love her Why I can’t measure up Come, take my hand I’ll show you why, Why you fell for me first And not her

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Denis Joe

Date: 2/19/2009 1:08:00 AM

I like this. Usually I shy away from the confessional, but this allows the reader to move out of that sphere and give the poem their own meaning. Empathy is not a good response to a poem and I always think that it shows laziness on the part of the reader if empathy is the only approach. Loss and the questioning of it is a universal theme and the way that this poem is written helps the reader to seek out an understanding.