Im suprised that people were reading let alone enjoying my poetry so I figure I'll post this one for y'all as well. This is a poem I wrote a few years back, when myself and the flower were still aquainted and I wanted to explain the way I saw things. Hope yall enjoy.

 

Hi, how are you? 

My life’s been lively

Even without you

The One Who Got Away

 

A snake from the past

Raised up its head, rattled my cage

With thoughts of you

The One Who Got Away

 

Suddenly I remember those words I wrote

On far off shores when my mind was consumed

By memories of you

The One Who Got Away

 

I woke with a start

What was that?

That which woke me in this dreaded hell of uncertainty?

Was it our foe? My duties? No…. It was you?

The One Who Got Away?

 

For a moment I was back

Before things went sour like milk turned on the counter

Between me and you

The One Who Got Away

 

I remembered the spring air

Crisp and fresh with the afternoon rain, the beauty of Gaea there for the taking

But the only thing taken was my heart, by you

The One Who Got Away

 

The tears fall like a storm on the sea

As I remember the things I swore I would never do

To never betray, to never hurt you

The One Who Got Away

 

But alas it came to be

That by my own mistakes, with my own hands

A wedge was driven between me and you

The One Who Got Away

 

Many times I tried to say

I tried to show I had found my way

Never again to hurt you 

The One Who Got Away

 

But with each passing of the year 

With each bridge that spanned the chasm of pain between us two

Just further away we became, the more agony I brought to you

The One Who Got Away

 

But a fool was I

I saw not the damage I’d done

Foisting myself at you

The One Who Got Away

 

Until at last the foundation was shattered

I drove that whiskey filled spike of anger and pain

Into your shores losing you forever more

The One Who Got Away

 

As I sit here now, I am wise enough to say

It is best we go our ways 

And that I should not attempt to reel you in once again

The One Who Got Away

 

But my pole has no more line

My bait has all gone bad

They say there are plenty of other fish, but my hart still longs for

The One Who Got Away

 

I see you splash off in the distance

And set a course for reconciliation

But you always slip away

The One Who Got Away

 

So I sit on this dock

With nothing but Mr. Jamison and the songs in my mind

My only company since you slipped away

The One Who Got Away

 

And here’s to you

May you find one who snares you like you did me

and that he never decides to slip away

your very own personal 

One Who Got Away