The years pass. I stay alone. Women used to come in and out of my life all the time as I searched for another love better than the last. I let you get away, but later realized you were “the one” in my heart; the one I loved. If I can’t have you, I don’t want anyone. E.T.
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear
that you don’t feel the same way for me…
the problem is that as much as
I can’t force you to love me,
I can’t force myself to stop loving you.
Author Unknown
You being gone is difficult every day, but most challenging on holidays. When others are celebrating as couples and families, I only want to be alone. That we had such great times throws memory like salt into an unhealed wound. Oh, how I miss you my darling. S.L.
Taken from “The Loss of Love” by Countee Cullen
All through an empty place I go,
And find her not in any room;
The candles and the lamps I light
Go down before a wind of gloom.
Thick-spraddled lies the dust about,
A fit, sad place to write her name
Or draw her face the way she looked
That legendary night she came.
I have loved you for years but never made my feelings known to you. The courage to speak what was in my heart never came. You married another man and my feeling for you must remain forever a secret. My sad destiny is the heartbreak of loving you from a distance. C.L.
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,
that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he
by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones,
why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze
stirred by the sighs of her veils,
why everyone did not go mad
with the movements of her braid,
the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.
He had not missed a single one of her gestures,
not one of the indications of her character,
but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I had loved and been loved before knowing you, but with you only have I known the rare and profound romantic love that has been legendary for centuries. Down to the very core of my being I still feel you. Why I allowed myself to run you away I will never understand. C.B.
You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is until you have lost it.
Anonymous
Plainly simple, I still love you and often find thoughts dancing in my head about time we shared. The grief of our ending has long passed replaced by gratefulness for what was. I hope you are happy, healthy and enjoying your life. Always you’ll be in my heart. V.M.
Gazing out my window
I thought of yesterdays
The faces and the gestures
And how the laughter fades
Wondered if you’re happy
Or if you found your way
From long nights in November
And the promise that we made.
“Back Spaces” by Jeff Kurfess
For a time I convinced myself I didn’t care about you. My feelings were stuffed down deep. When asked if I missed you, I’d lie and say, “No, not really. I’m better off without her”. I deeply regret every time I said that. For the rest of my days part of my heart will always be yours. J.B.
It is impossible to fall out of love.
Love is such a powerful emotion,
that once it envelops you it does not depart.
True love is eternal.
If you think that you were once in love,
but fell out of it,
then it wasn’t love you were in. T
here are no ‘exit’ signs in love,
there is only an ‘on’ ramp.
Unknown
How many times have we broken up and gotten back together in the last four years? Nine times! Just because two people love each other does not mean they are compatible enough to make a life together. In spite of the pain the thought brings, it’s time to admit that. D.H.
There once was a time if I just closed my eyes,
I could see us together as one.
But after these years of growing apart,
I can see that dream is done.
You were the one who knew me inside and out,
And always knew just what to say.
Any problems I had would disappear,
When you said it would all be okay.
There was always a special connection with us,
And these days it seems to be gone.
Whatever we had died a long time ago,
But it’s just so hard to move on.
Taken from “Not Meant To Be” by Katy Mikelle
Last time I saw you was long time ago. Now 40 years later I can still hear your voice in my head sometimes. I shed a tear once in a while over how a war took you from me and stole your life. I moved on, but never completely. Always your spark will be in my heart. D.K.
Love never disappears for death is a non-event.
I have merely retired to the room next door.
You and I are the same; what we were for each other, we still are.
Speak to me as you always have, do not use a different tone, do not be sad.
Continue to laugh at what made us laugh.
Smile and think of me.
Life means what it has always meant.
The link is not severed.
Why should I be out of your soul if I am out of your sight?
I will wait for you, I am not here, but just on the other side of this path.
You see, all is well.
St. Augustine
With my eyes closed I can still see us together in my memories. I was very angry at you for a long time, but that feeling has mellowed. In my heart now is etched a permanent reverence for the great love we shared. That we lasted only for a time makes it no less remarkable. J.B.
Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk.
If you twist it into something it was never meant to be,
It can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator.
Forgiving seems almost unnatural.
Our sense of fairness tells us
People should pay for the wrong they do.
But forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule.
Lewis B. Smedes
You didn’t want to leave the town we grew up in and my ambition wouldn’t allow me to stay. My choice left you behind. It wasn’t a bad decision, just not the one I wish I had made. After all this time I have never been able to let you go completely. My heart is yours always. T.C.
Never say I love you if you don’t really care.
Never talk about feelings if they aren’t really there.
Never hold my hand if you are going to break my heart.
Never say you are going to if you don’t plan to start.
Never look into my eyes if all you do is lie.
Never say hello if you really mean good-bye.
If you really mean forever then say that you will try
Never say forever cause forever makes me cry.
Unknown
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