I fell in love a year ago believing it would be <br />The permanent expression of the love she shared with me <br />Our feelings were so powerful, so deep and so intense <br />Without a hint of selfishness and surely no pretense <br /> <br />I thought about her day and night; she occupied my dreams <br />Her countenance enveloped me, my life she did redeem <br />She walked with grace and beauty and her speech was always kind <br />I knew this was my one true love, no other would I find <br /> <br />Days and weeks passed quickly as my love knew no restraint <br />And so our little problems never merited complaint <br />And thus to all but love I shed emotions so confined <br />Reality had been replaced by lofty state of mind <br /> <br />But then her love just ended as she left without a trace <br />Leaving me with only recollections of her face <br />And memories of a love affair I thought would long endure <br />A timeless love whose time ran out now gone forever more <br /> <br />I do not know if I'll survive, my mind is in a trance <br />I feel each moment that this is a fatal circumstance <br />I heard before of people dying with a broken heart <br />But never dreamed that I would star in such a tragic part <br /> <br />I am a young man with my future lying still ahead <br />And yet I have no energy to go beyond my bed <br />My friends tell me that time will heal my heart and yet I know <br />My life will not continue if her love I must forego <br /> <br />Yet each day going forward the sun again does rise <br />As time dims recollection of the gleam in her blue eyes <br />I now look back with fondness on our vibrant love affair <br />And hope to find a love again but know not when or where<br /><br />Richard Lackman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-fell-in-love-a-year-ago/
