I Gave You Love and All Of Me

You held my hand then let it go.

I watched a tear fall from the sky.

The time has come so fast but slow.

A cold, cold wind pours from your eye.

 

The breath of morn blows out the flame.

I melt into the mountainside.

The river flows into your name.

I cast the golden ring aside.

 

Sweetness sours into bitter fruit.

Flowers wither within my hand.

You are leaving, my heart en route.

A pale frost cloaks the jagged land.

 

I gave you love and all of me.

You were never meant to be mine.

Where you go is where I will be.

Time and truth ever intertwine.

 

In my dreams, I embrace you still.

I find comfort in what I know.

I still love you and always will.

Moonlight shimmers upon the snow.

 

In this life, I must walk alone

wearing dark shadows of the past.

I am haunted in flesh and bone.

My first will always be my last.

 

I gave you love and all of me.

I gave you everything I am.

I gave you more than I could be.

Flood waters rise above the dam.

"Unsullied Opening" by Jae Meng inspired this poem, really written as lyrics to go with the music.

Author's Note

Reviews

[D]

When love is felt so deeply it remains with us even if it travels beyond bounds. It becomes ingrained in us so completely that we feel it even though the source of love is removed. Not all, not everyone can feel this kind of a profound love and those who do are the kind who love only once. For them, the first is their last.
A sad and truly beautiful refrain of love. Each verse in itself is a small universe of love. A poem to remember.

[willweb]

This was beautiful and once again, the cadence was flawless. So smooth and satin like to read. You must be a musician of some sort.

[John the Baptist]

The pain of an unhealed wound seeps through this one. Though the addressee here is apparently a part of the past, the speaker has not managed to to leave it there. I imagine even unrelated things that remind of the lost love can bring that past back to center stage in a heartbeat. Some wounds eventually heal, some don't. Very nice handling of rhyme and meter here.

[c !]

the entire poem was absolutely stunning, yet in the midst of the beauty, these lines really stuck out to me -

"In my dreams, I embrace you still.
I find comfort in what I know.
I still love you and always will.
Moonlight shimmers upon the snow."

the sense of longing strikes a chord within me, and while i cannot say i've experienced something as described in the poem, it makes me feel as though i have. wonderful stuff, very powerful - thank you very much for sharing.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

beautiful music and poem.

Sometimes we just lose ourselves in a lover...and when they go, a big part of us goes with them.
I am part of a few people...and I really don't mind!

I like the rhyme here so much because I didn't even notice it....it did not affect me focusing on the content whatsoever.
j.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Thank you, Jacob. I think this was meant to be a simple write, nothing too complicated. I find the bamboo flute to be so emotive that it almost weeps. It just moved me. Thank you for reading.