Thirty Fifth Birthday [2010]

Even the tale of a fairy book ending,
Shall not be the one that we can be getting
It's too late for us as a couple my darling,
Yet as friends we seem to have saved this thing
I call it love and you call it hell,
You call it love at times as well and I just can't tell
Are you hating to love me yet again once more??
I would never be able to tell every time I walk in your door
I hold you in the darkest corners of my mind,
You are the only light that glows of any kind
It's been so long since we have kissed,
I know that you think of it too and maybe even miss
You and I is the way perhaps it should of been,
We shall never be able to go back and find out due to it being a sin
A sin of lust which turned into love so quickly as said or so they say,
Just know that I still love you on this day of my thirty fifth birthday.

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

We can't go confusing love with lust, sex, romance or Valentine's Day. The secret is the thing parents never tell the kids. Love is three things...like that trinity god the preachers are always talking about. Those three things love is are these...Hard Work...Loyalty...and Sacrifice. That's it. THAT is what love REALLY is....none of that OTHER crap. Think of it like this...anything worth having...worth loving...is worth sacrifice...the greater the love...the greater the sacrifice...god gives his only son as an example. Remember the REASON for the cross is this, "For god so LOVED the world" so who says love doesn't have suffering? They better look long and hard at that cross! And LOYALTY? It takes a lot of loyalty to die for what you believe in...again, it's love. Hard Work...well, that's given, isn't it? Try raising a child WITHOUT working...it's LOVE I tell you. So...why all the confusion about what love is and isn't? It's simple. The WORD is overused..we LOVE pizza, LOVE our new car, LOVE our booze or cigarettes. Until we forget the TRUE meaning of love and what love is. So...WHY don't parents TELL their kids this? I think about the time of adolescence the parents are just ready to KILL their children. LMAO and so...To get them out of the house and into the real world so they can discover that they DON"T know EVERYTHING...parents just keep that fact to themselves. Their children want to fight the one's who fed them, clothed them. provided for them...LOVED them, all their lives because...guess why? They are "in love"...which means their libidos are switched on and their brains are switched OFF! And who in the hell ever heard of ANYONE wanting to FALL into hard work, loyalty and sacrifice? Kids are selfish creatures...they mainly only think about themselves and instant gratification of their desires. They know absolutely NOTHING about hard work, loyalty and sacrifice but they will declare they are "in love"! At which point their parents must smile knowingly and think what stupid creatures they have raised and try not to blame themselves for nature activating that hormone explosion known as puberty. Like old Skakespeare said, "If this be error and upon me proved/ then I never wrote...nor no man ever loved"

[ScarlettTheDreamer]

Nice. A beautiful poem about true love that is more than something that lasts only a few months. Great :)

[KatiePie]

"A sin of lust that turned into love" Was my favorite line, really beautiful, it broke my heart reading this, really.
Powerful emotions, I loved it.
-Cathrine

[Coyote Poetry]

35 years is still a baby. I like this poem. The poem tells a kind story. Thing lost and missed always stay with us. A outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Wicahpi]

Well Happy Belated Birthday!!!
Even a dimming light is light after all.
Reminds me of being in my garage where
it's pitch black except for the tiny night light.
Thank the Lord for that tiny beacon. Keeps
me from stumbling around in the dark.
"Why not just use the light switch" I've
been asked. hmmmmm

[Black Cat Fever]

Remembering what could have been but probably was never meant to be yet unable to forget. The emotions here are strong and very true to life. You did a very good job on this.

[Ruth]

Happy Birthday love!
Great poem to realistically bring the reader to a halt!
Awesome
xx