Monthly Archives: June 2013

A Pebble Dropping On the Sand

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broken20heart1You wonder why I hesitate. Everything I want to say I shouldn’t tell you. You belong to another. To be near you and not tell you how much love is in my heart for you is impossible. To be in your presence and not hold you would be unbearable.

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It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking,
like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand.
Not a shattering, not a tearing apart,
there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation.
It is merely an internal realization that something treasured…
is leaving forever.
From “The Art of Devotion” by Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

Through the Duration of Time

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broken20heart1I have loved you for over twenty-five years but we’ve shared only scattered days. True love is like that; it lasts and lasts proving itself over and over through the duration of time. How I wish to had been able to see before what I so clearly comprehend now. K.M.

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If you hide, I’ll seek for you.
If you’re lost, I’ll search for you.
If you leave, I’ll wait for you.
If they try to take you away from me,
I’ll fight for you.
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Time After Time

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broken20heart1My Mother said, “What you put up with, you end up with”. She was right. Time after time I forgave you for hitting me. Then later I’d believe how sorry you were. But it got worse. I’m done with you; absolutely and one hundred percent. D.L.

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Just watch
my wildest dreams come true,
not one of them involving you.
Paramore lyrics

Yours Only I Am

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broken20heart1Hold my hand again. Take me in your arms. Linger against me. Kiss me slowly; tenderly. While I don’t live in the past, your part in my life is as vibrantly fresh and alive as if it was yesterday; not twenty five years ago. This love is one of a kind that comes only once. Yours only I am. C.B.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments
and glue them together again and tell myself
that the mended whole was as good as new.
What is broken is broken and I’d rather
remember it as it was at its best than mend it
and see the broken places as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell

Silently From A Distance

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broken20heart1Today was one of those days where everything reminded me of you and every song I heard somehow related to you. I used to hate days like this, because they remind me I don’t have you. I’m better now. I learned to love you silently from a distance.

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I haven’t forgiven you yet.
I may never forgive you.
It is our wounds that create in us
a desire to reach for miracles.
The fulfillment of such miracles
depends on whether we let our wounds
pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.
From “Mend My Heart” by Jocelyn Soriano

Can You Do That?

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broken20heart1We’re back together. I don’t know how it will turn out. I’m hopeful and will do my best to make things work. Only if we can put the past hurt and misery we caused each other behind us do we have an honest chance. It will be difficult. Can you do that?Are you sure?

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I’ve oft been told by learned friars,
That wishing and the crime are one,
And Heaven punishes desires
As much as if the deed were done.
If wishing damns us, you and I
Are damned to all our heart’s content;
Come, then, at least we may enjoy
Some pleasure for our punishment!
Thomas Moore

Impossible

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broken20heart1“The right man will love the things about you that the wrong one was intimidated by.” That anonymous quote helped me understand why you and I never worked out. You persistently said how I should change. I failed because it was impossible to please you! P.L.

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You’re everything
I thought you never were
and nothing like
I thought you could’ve been.
Beyoncé

While In The Blindness

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broken20heart1I am going to forget how much you hurt me, but I’ll never forget what loving you taught me. Trust should not be given while in the blindness of newly awakened passion. I will never get involved again believing a person with will change if I love them enough. A.T.

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At some point,
you’ll have to realize
that some people
can stay in your heart,
but not in your life.
Ashley Hodgeson

The Biggest Coward

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broken20heart1I read that sometimes the best way to get a woman’s attention is to stop giving her yours. I quit returning your calls and didn’t answer the door when you came by. I tried to make you want me more, but you just stopped calling and coming around. T.P.

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The biggest coward
is a man who awakens
a woman’s love
with no intention
of loving her.
Bob Marley

Only Thing Left To Do

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broken20heart1Every time I think of you, I have to remind myself if you wanted to talk to me, you would. That’s hard because of my feelings, but I am better off without your attention. You need help. Emotionally you’re sick, confused and screwed up. I feel sorry for you. D.B.

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The only thing left to do
is forgive and forget.
I want to
forgive you
and
I want to
forget you.
Lauren Conrad