What Happens When the Girl You've Always Wanted

July 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is love.

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A love poem giving advice to someone who has lost his love:

What happens when the girl you've always wanted

Breaks up with you? Are you forever haunted

By thoughts of her with someone else? By the thought

That never, never will you love like that

Again? The jewel of day is gone. You see

Bitter blackness until death. Ay me!

What more can someone in such pain want

Than death?

The girl you've always wanted need not haunt

You long. If she no longer loves you, then clearly

She's not the one. The pain lasts only rarely,

Because a healthy love, like any fire,

Requires a match.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

7/26: Although You Are with Someone Else

7/27: I Want You Back Now that You’re Gone

7/28: What Happens when the Girl You’ve Always Wanted