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One Step Backwards

To hear that you are gone for good and never coming back to me, it breaks my heart and tears my soul; I wonder why this has to be. You say you're happy now with him; I have to back away, I know, and leave you to enjoy that love, forget the way I hoped we'd grow. You left three years ago and I must carry on...at least, I'll try. written 5th August for Constance's Poetry Journal contest One step backwards

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 8/19/2018 1:25:00 PM

Big congrats for your win, Jack,

Susan Gentry

Date: 8/9/2018 7:46:00 PM

Congratulations on your win. Well done!

Constance La France

Date: 8/9/2018 2:56:00 PM

Jack congratulations on your win in my contest with this emotional write ~

Harry Horsman

Date: 8/7/2018 8:19:00 AM

Jack i feel your pain, this is wonderfully written and one gem of a poem..

Nette Onclaud

Date: 8/6/2018 5:42:00 PM

sometimes, we don't have to let go of love as memories stay almost forever... such a splendid write, jack!...huggs

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 8/6/2018 3:02:00 PM

Some never get over a lost love...they remain unmarried as my grandfather did after losing my grandmother. They were kept apart by family and she died young at 50. This is a fine entry for the contest Jack! ;-)

Sara Kendrick

Date: 8/5/2018 2:25:00 PM

Well, one can writer a better poem when they have or are experiencing the event or pain. Good job. Thanks for all the visits to my page. Sara

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 8/5/2018 2:11:00 PM

Hi, Jack, you did a beautiful job here though I think you used poetic license. There is still a ring of truth in it. The sting of the breakup. Thanks for visiting my poems today. I need desperately to get over to my emails. Hopefully soon!