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[sid] => 102954
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => What they wanted
[time] => 2005-08-07 23:25:35
[hometext] => sad but true
[bodytext] => His voice wracked with sad, palpable gloom Low, mournful why's spread, filling the room So very, very sad; almost too painful to hear Brackets for this scene of many grief-spawned tear 'Please leave me alone', was all he had said Following her shocking words that rang in his head Silence broken now only by a sob-filled gasp The one thing he held dear, slipping from his grasp Quiet now, as if the whole world all fell silent The heat of angry clawed him like a misplaced tyrant Still, they knew it wrong for him to be left alone Eerily, slowly just how wrong, cut to the bone She thought long and worried thin polished fingers The doubts of her decision surface and now lingers At the door with apologies, all is hushed 'Okay', she said, 'yes, I was wrong...I rushed.' 'Honey, I'm sorry', stood outside the locked door Nothing from within, except a thump on the floor 'I didn't think when I made you sad.''Do you hear me?' 'Now, open up, silly...remember that I have a key!' Her dreams are haunted to this very day What she had found in the puddle where he lay Leaving was what she thought was so right Twice wrong was she; he left her that night A ribbon with a ring, the slip of why, almost not found All lying so close to him...crumpled on the ground You wanted to leave, it said, and start a new life All I wanted, was just for you to be my wife Late at night, you can hear her pace the floor Soft, sad, mournful sobs slip past the door She got what she wanted; it can be said Life alone, without him...her lover...now dead [comments] => 2 [counter] => 178 [topic] => 32 [informant] => reprobate [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => SadPoetry )
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