Loneliness

Someone starts to sing a song

and it makes me think of you

Just a sad, simple, melody

both you and I once knew

 

As the words drift by my ears

a kind sadness fills my heart

The song has much more meaning

as time has kept us apart

 

I try to see your face again

to think of things unsaid

But all I can remember

is this song inside my head

 

My memory is failing now

oh so sad, but oh so true

All that's left of our sweet love

is this song that we once knew

 

Author's Note

How can any of us say we are not afraid to die?
To see another waste away is such a painful thing.Yet we still see them as we wish to remember them

Reviews

[MagiCrystal]

A memory is a life time storie and the names of the people does not meter, what meters is like you said.. The feeling that brings us a smile or a tear.
I had to stop all that I was doing tonight! and sit here and read with my heart and soul your poetry, you have ask me many times to come and read it so tonight I had some time.
You are one of the people ( poet) I know that writes about songs and feelings and real life facts, I do understand.
When we love.. we love, ! we do not think of nothing else but to give and forget about our self, In this verses you wrote I read them quite a few times, each line over and over again.
The heart has the ability along with the mind, to takes us to the very second where we left that memory and re-lived the memories. Our minds are made in such a perfection that not one detail escapes with time we have files up to date and we never make mistakes unless we want to. How perfect is our brain and heart that even when time goes by so fast but, when that musical note hits our mind. Bummmm! There it is again and our yesterday's are in our today's and they can come and visit our present in a flash. It goes by so fast and leaves us exhausted and full of love and sometimes pain.
I can't even begin to tell you how much I love to come and read your poem, it brought tears to my eyes ( Again and Again) You my friend have that gift to touch a very tender part of my soul and heart.
I can't stop looking at the image and thinking about my Mom and Dad. For some reason that was the string you touched... and you will continue to bring me to my knees every time Oh yes !!! I will come back and read this. Divine, simply divine.
If I may say.. the best poem I have read today .. Sunday and I will go and open my library to post this poem on my top shelf... I am going to save it in a very tender special place for this amazing poem you have wrote and I thank you.
Not everyone can bleed and not hurt when a poet as you displayed his words in a such a deep feeling for us to feel.
Again.. one more time. You have got me glued ! No surprise to me I knew you will do it again. Off I go to read another one of your pages..I love to do that!

[Veronica Chandler]

Okay, I am weeping again, and these words have moved through me like a tsunami that rushed in and swept across my soul engulfing me entirely. I am wistful and filled with warm memories and the deep sense of loss I associate with the warm memories. I miss the source of my memories and feel an incredibly powerful longing by listening to the song you picked to grace this beautiful piece. Your words seem to move me inexplicably to the place from which you wrote them and they have yet to fail in moving me. Exquisite write!

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

A beautiful poem, well written and the song is nice, too. Thank you for sharing. Debileah

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Tate, why must you make me cry. lol
Gosh so sad, The song fits so well.
Your note is so true. I agree, ok this song is making me cry even more.
Beautifully written although so sad.

Awesome awesome awesome 1000/100 .. even more .. superb write Tate .. this one is my fovorite so far among all your writes that I have read ..
Just one suggestion , may be you should remove the THAT from the start of the last line of the first stanza .

[Alicia™]

So wonderfully written… I think this is one of my favorite poems by you.

[George Love]

Rahter melacholic memory in a way. Nicely expressed, and once again, the wordshith in you comes out.

[KAREN]

This did bring tears to my eyes as I read! GOOD JOB!!! Well written!!

[JanieB]

Well done..

[the_stoic]

all that remains is that song .. music binds two souls in a manner in which nothing else can . i know when every tune reminds me of someone special and how it all used to be .. people grow old and they die but somethings never change .. heartfelt write once again !

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Music is definitely a delightful and/or melancholic memory initiative. For me, as well, smell works in a similar way. Very Divine and succinct write, Tate. Thank you.
Light,
SiddARTha