You had been my everything

I would’ve flown every morning to bring you a morning Dove

But our life together was filled with so much hurt

And I was often questioned why it was you that I claimed to love

But I stuck to you like a Bee to honey

You were all I wanted in my life

And though we would fight, shout and argue

I never stopped dreaming of you as my wife

I will not lie and say you never hurt me

‘Cause you did more than anyone ever before

We went from break up to wake up to make up for months

And though I hated it I always came back for more

The final time we broke up

You told me I couldn’t even be your friend

And though I fought for you for a very long time

Finally I told myself that it was the end

I moved on in life sometime thereafter

It had taken a while but even you helped in convincing me to do it

And though I didn’t want to go back into the cold and lonely world

I still had enough awareness to do it and not quit

I found a girl from my past who I had liked

With whom I had never been given a real chance

And though we hazed off as ‘Just Good Friends’

Around the word love we soon begun to dance

As time went on you found me again and I let you back into my life

In doing this my friends said I evidently hadn’t learned

They told me I could only play with fire so long

Before I eventually get painfully burned

But now I’ve finally learned from my mistakes

That’s why our friendship will one day completely end

You see I’ve learned a very important thing in my already long and laborious life

And that’s the hardest thing in the world is to try and turn an ex-love into a friend

Published by Forward Press in poetry book entitled ‘Truly Mine’ 2004.