Who Knew Your Forever Was

Who Knew Your Forever Was


Who knew your forever was eleven months and a day
me trying to keep you , buckets of love in each play
Girl, your sexy body was the drug I desperately needed
yet you went to ice cold as my hurting heart pleaded!

Who knew my faithful love, sadly was never enough
you would hit me with heartbreak and say tough
Girl, your body set my heart burning in a blaze
now your leaving sent this man into a drunken haze!

Who knew your paradise was to be a future dark Hell
deeper the false ride you gave the farther I fell
Girl, I thought to love and your life truly save
now you cast me into this dark and lonely grave!

I am just too far gone to now be rightly thinking
I sit here my mind rotting , heart rapidly sinking
Girl, your leaving rips me apart, sets me to drinking
I sit here in darkness, my broken soul all bleeding!

Robert Lindley
August 17th 1977

note: I wrote this over three decades ago, while drunk, 
 on a Saturday night. 
Beaten down by a woman that broke my soul . That cut
my heart out and ate it with relish. I tried to get
her to see her folly but no dice. Life is like that.
People run their own path picking up pleasure and 
then casting it away. Youth must suffer from its lack
of experience...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014


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Date: 8/30/2014 8:49:00 AM
You described perfectly the desperation and longing of youth trying to hold onto a vision of love and romance.
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Date: 8/29/2014 7:15:00 PM
I have had my share of broken hearts yet as I read what you wrote underneath I have to grin. Yes I'm glad those days are gone.
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Date: 8/29/2014 11:05:00 AM
Are you sure only youth suffer, Robert. You'd think we get wise as we grow older, but no such thing! Glad you are in a better place. Boy your talent has been there all along!
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Date: 8/29/2014 10:40:00 AM
Very touchy sad write Robert ! Old days gone , glad that u r happy now! Ur rhyming as always is superb!
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