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When He Left

when someone leaves it is so loud so personal so silent a deafening emptiness with a middle ear only you can hear you are not coming back you are never coming back I have to know that right so there will never be an indefinite you and me Three AM's are the worst left aching for peace you remember I said when time goes to sleep the in-between time when moments cease when tomorrow gave up yesterday still I miss the fragrance of your pleasure a voice that satisfies the melody of a tender string that did not know it was holding together a life that would never be but your vibrations are all around still velvet passionate silver raindrops they linger knowing me finding me I know you rarely think of we you moved up and I moved around still you a most beautiful drug now a humiliating habit now I creep for a stranger not to worry they said social media is not a danger profile up smile for the camera cry into the wine hurry you don’t have much time I was a victim of a monster and now the monster to a victim feeling hysterical in a smiling room of misery hoping he will provide the ultimate release from the last shot that crippled me but still I clutch the jagged edges needing to survive the nights when there are no safe ledges doesn’t have to be quality just a momentary remembrance that satisfies the pain just so I might cry with some dignity when I stand lonely in the rain please just find the trace the touch he left all over hours of me I am lost in a pirouette far off away into his source wondering where is this place that lost love goes if love never dies I would want to visit there and apologize so what happens to the lover who is not ready to walk alone

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Date: 1/18/2022 1:15:00 AM
Wow! Each pang of separation so artistically portrayed, as the abandoned lover falls into a bottomless abyss
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Gabrielle Jordan
Date: 1/22/2022 10:46:00 AM
Hello, how are you? Thank you so much. Even after several years of writing this, I still get chills reading it. Peace and Love! G.
Date: 9/5/2018 4:24:00 PM
You are one awesome poetess, Your work is mature, revealing and good. Thank you for sharing.
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Gabrielle Jordan
Date: 9/5/2018 4:55:00 PM
Thank you my friend. I was having one of those days that we can have. I read a poem for the first time to my mother on Sunday. Her response was, you would have made a great attorney!:) Pixie, you have lifted my spirits!!!
Date: 8/11/2018 10:53:00 PM
I like the way that you have increased the agony, as it were, via the short lines, stretching on and on and on. Very emotional and emotive, Gabrielle! Best wishes, Gershon
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Gabrielle Jordan
Date: 8/15/2018 7:20:00 AM
Hey Gershon, thank you so much!
Date: 8/11/2018 6:42:00 PM
This is a masterpiece of romance and love lost! It is so heartbreaking when the beloved does not return our love and moves on! Excellently written emotive piece! Best regards. Pandita
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Gabrielle Jordan
Date: 8/11/2018 6:58:00 PM
Pandita, it made me sad to write it. Thank you!

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