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I DIDN"T LOVE YOU THEN





I DIDN'T LOVE YOU THEN




I DIDN'T LOVE YOU THEN.........
WHEN THE SUN WAS WARM
AND SHINING ON YOUR FACE
MY HEART KEPT IT'S DISTANCE
EVEN THOUGH YOUR HAND HELD MINE
AND KEPT ME CLOSE THROUGH
PICNIC, SAND CASTLE AND 
SUDDEN THUNDERSTORM
NOR WHEN WE RAN FOR SHELTER
LAUGHING LIKE CHILDREN.

I DIDN'T LOVE YOU THEN
WHEN THE MOON
BATHED YOU IN HER SNOWY GLANCE
LIGHTING UP YOUR SOULFUL EYES
AS YOU LIT A CIRCLE OF CANDLES
AND ASKED ME TO DANCE
IN THE FOREST
WITH ONLY THE SONG THAT BURST
SPONTANEOUSLY FROM YOUR LIPS
FOR MUSIC.

I DIDN'T LOVE YOU THEN
AS I READ VOLUMES
OF YOUR LETTERS FILLED
WITH PROSE AND PASSION
PLEDGES OF UNDYING FOREVERNESS
AND PAIN.....
I COULD NOT...
I WOULD NOT...
AND I DON'T KNOW WHY
MY HEART WOULD ONLY BID ME RUN.

BUT TODAY IS A DAY I COULD NOT SEE
LIKE YESTERDAY WILL ALWAYS BE
THERE IN MY MIND
A MEMORY, CAPTURED, HELD IN HANDS
CLASPED SO TIGHTLY, THEY HURT
THE SAME HANDS THAT COULD NOT 
HOLD YOU TO MY UNFEELING HEART
BUT WATCHED YOU WALK AWAY
ALONE AND PUZZLED AT MY NONCHALANCE
I DIDN'T LOVE YOU THEN BUT.... I DO NOW.

MY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY EVER LOVE........
I DIDN'T LOVE YOU THEN BUT I DO NOW.



©BY VOO
NOVEMBER 2, 2006 
11:37 P.M.

2 comments:

  1. why is it that we tend to love what we don't have more than what we do? Sad one, Voo.

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  2. You never know how much you can love and miss someone until they're gone out of your life. It just happens sometimes. But the pain that continues to follow, just never really goes away completely for the special one who tried to find your love that you kept hidden from them. Such a sad story. But a good one.

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