The Way It Use To Be

A sad poem

I dream of the way it use to be

when you use to make love to me

so passionate all through the night

making love until it was daylight.

Now I lay here alone and so blue

longing and missing loving you

but you are too tired for love anymore

working so hard you pass out 

when you come through the door.

Leaving me wanting and needing so much

the soft tender caress of a lover's touch

unfulfilled and so empty it seems

nothing but shattered hopes and dreams.

Somehow I'm suppose to understand this

when instead I long for your passionate kiss

where oh where did my lover go

where is the man that I loved so?

Reviews

[Daytonight]

I checked with the Webster's dictionary and "use to" is also a correct form. So I shall stick with that one as it just sounds better to me. But thanks so much for pointing that out Thomas! I appreciate your taking the time to read and comment on my poetry. I don't have the answers for whether it is better to have or not. Still searching for them.

[Sukriti Suki]

ohh so full of want and desire...the love that we want so much.I like the raw emotion and even the rhyme. Nice work.

[Raven Starhawk]

For me it was magically inclined to forward me into a heavy heart. Your words are golden.

[from the desk of]

A very heart felt write, sometimes life and work just take over, I hope for you the best and I thank you for sharing your thoughts, this is a beautiful piece full of emotion and leaves me feeling sad.

[John Faulkner]

Longing for unreturned love is indeed heartbraking

Fabulous piece..I can feel the emotions in your words


JOHN

[AnnaMariaQQss]

Awesome girlfriend!! I have no other words to explain this poem.

I read some of the comments below and I see a reference to the dictonary. I use rhymezone.com for reference it has every correct way to structure words = definitions,near rhymes...etc

check it out. I love it and its foldable like a small book you can flip open in a second and use it without switching windows.

Hugs, AnnaMaria

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

A great reflective poem that is wonderfully written :)

[Inyourshadow]

One wonders why anyone can do such things to a heart they claim to love, tis a sad story your poem portrays so easily. Beautifully penned and so tenderly expressed. Keep em' coming

[WindSong]

A lover's lament. The heart grieves for the loss of a special love, and longs for it to return as before with the romance and passion. Well written!

[knightcall]

Technical point shouldn't it be used to? The ache of longing begs the question is it better than to have loved and lost than to have never loved. I can see both sides but who is to say one doesn't long for first love