Category Archives: Life Goes On

Making It OK

Posted by James Browning on

Over time it became painfully obvious we should not be together, but logic hasn’t stopped me from day-dreaming about what might have been. Hindsight has saved the good times & forgotten the bad. I suppose that’s lifes way of making me OK we’re no longer together. K.M.

We had a lot of fun
When we were together
I’ll never forget
I’ll always remember.

The laughs that we shared
The dreams that we had
But those dreams changed
And they left me sad.

I know you’ve moved on
And found someone new
But I have to admit
I still wish for you.

This isn’t healthy for me
I really need to stop
When I think about our past
My heart wants to pop.

So as I say my last goodbye
I want you to know
That I’m trying my best
To learn to just let go.

“Just Let Go” by Aubrey at bestteenpoems.com

In Great Reverence

Posted by James Browning on

Thoughts of you don’t fill my mind constantly anymore, but I still think of you often. I wonder what you’re doing, how you are and if you’re happy. In spite of how things ended up between us you’re forever special to me. I’ll always hold what we shared in great reverence. J.W.

If years from now I see you somewhere,
I will look at you and smile.
I will remember all the good times
we had together.
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Only Time Will Tell

Posted by James Browning on

I think I’ll make it. No longer am I just bones and am gaining weight after barely eating for months. I’m exercising and hanging out with friends again. Once in a while I even remember something we shared and smile. Will I ever love again? Only time will tell. S.B.

Learn to appreciate the rainbow
after cursing the rain.
It’s just like loving again
after experiencing the pain.
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Back When We Cared

Posted by James Browning on

Never will I forget driving when you got so angry over almost nothing and ruined everything. You said horrible things, then threw your engagement ring out my car window. We stopped but did not find it.  Your tears and sorry’s could not repair what damage you had done. R.B.

Paint a perfect smile,
Straight onto my face,
Wash it off good,
Don’t leave any trace,
Of our happy times,
The days we shared
Back when we cared.
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Just Once Upon a Time

Posted by James Browning on

Ten thousand times I have asked myself when did I begin to fall out of love with you. Well I remember being head over heals about you with a feeling that was amazingly profound. Nothing happened, yet one day my love began to diminish. I can’t help it. I’m so sorry. V.M.

Falling in love
is not always
a happily ever after story.
Most of the time,
it’s just once upon a time.
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None of the Pieces Fit

Posted by James Browning on

Why did I break up with you? Looking at all the pieces I realized ‘we’ weren’t a puzzle anymore. The pieces simply didn’t fit together. Even if we tried really hard, the pieces were still for two different puzzles. We don’t belong together and hurt each trying to be. K.M.

For every heart that finds love,
there is a heart that cries.
For every dream that is reborn,
there is a dream that dies.
For every day filled with sun,
there is a day of rain.
For every hour filled with joy
there is an hour of pain.
For every smile upon a face,
there is a tear to cry.
For every fond hello you say,
there is a sad goodbye.
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True Love Is Eternal

Posted by James Browning on

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.
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Forget and Smile

Posted by James Browning on

You said we’d be together again; to give you a few months to get things together. Not even a week later you wouldn’t even speak to me. For weeks I tried again and again to talk to you, but you would never listen, so I finally had to say to my self goodbye to you forever. C.S.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann’d:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
“Goodbye” By Christina Rossetti

Happiness or Pain

Posted by James Browning on

Overall I’m doing well. My job is going good and all my family is healthy. I’m still single and not dating. Is that because I haven’t forgiven myself for hurting you, because you’re stuck in my heart or both? I wake thinking about you most days. G.D.

The first person who’s on your mind
the moment you open your eyes
after a night of sleep
is the reason either
for your happiness,
or pain.
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Never Say…

Posted by James Browning on

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.
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