The Tough Love We Share

Your warm hand in mine was more than just holding hands.

When you told me you loved me I knew you would understand. 

But honestly, how could I be so blind?

Kissing, hugging, and time just flying by.

Those were the best moments of our lives. 

But is it a relationship I would go back and try?

Not one bit, because I know what you meant.

You turned out to be nothing but a cheater and a liar. 

I did everything I could and even mentioned to take it higher. 

All I had was tough love for you and I.

Honestly all you did to me was make me cry.

That day in the hallway, standing in front of me.

That was when you set me and our love free. 

You had told me you had made love to another girl.

At that moment, you had placed me in another world.

You said you promised me that you wouldn't do just that.

I couldn't believe it at first, but I was glad to see what I had.

You made me stronger than I was before.

But I know that's not why God put me on this Earth for. 

Author's Note

This was a poem I wrote a while back...I had some time to type it up and share it with my WritersCafe family!!!

Reviews

[William Liston]

This is very well written. From both a phonetic and conceptual perspective, this poem flowed very smoothly. The beautiful imagery of love at the beginning really made the irony in line 7 stick out. Also, your transition from a sorrowful tone to a more hopeful one was nearly perfect.

There were only two things I didn't like. First of all, I thought that part of line 11 was unnecessary: "Honestly all you did to me was make me cry." I felt like the words "to me" could be omitted, and in my opinion, they also disrupted the poem's smooth flow. Also, the metaphor "set me and our love free" in line 13 was somewhat misleading. Usually, when something is described as "set free," it usually means that something good has happened, or, in other words, that something has escaped a painful situation. From my understanding of the poem, your relationship was great at first, so the phrase "set free" has too positive of a connotation to be used in this context. But, honestly, I'm nitpicking. I'd give this a 9.7 out of 10.

[Heartful5160]

Thank you very much for the read!! I appreciate it!! You might think your nitpicking won't help me none, but my friend, it has!! Thank you very much! I really do appreciate it!! Thank you for giing your time to check it out!!

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

This is something the hardest moments in life, when someone cheat you in love it seems like a life is full of hell with jugglers around you. Very nice expressions of words..

[Heartful5160]

Thank you so much!! Definalty a relationship worth writing about!! Thank you so much for reading it and reviewing it!!

[lovergirl]

such a lovely piece , i loved it and truly related to it

[Heartful5160]

I'm so glad that you could relate to it!!! Thank you for the sweet compliment and thank you for taking the time to read this piece of mine. Thank you for giving a review as well!!!