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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...

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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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