{"id":2671,"date":"2012-05-24T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycjones.ca\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:56:56","slug":"poem-denise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"Poem &#8211; Denise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fallen Angel<\/p>\n<p>Dark thoughts overwhelm me in every way<br \/>\nSo hard to write without tears today<br \/>\nMy heart is broken, my soul laid bare<br \/>\nImpossible to go on with no one to care.<\/p>\n<p>You came into my life by pure chance<br \/>\nWas this to be my last shot at romance?<br \/>\nYou were my once in a lifetime love<br \/>\nSuch a wonderful gift from above.<\/p>\n<p>My life was in ruins until you came along<br \/>\nTo fill me with joy and in my heart put a song.<br \/>\nFrom the moment we met that fateful day<br \/>\nI knew you were special in every way.<\/p>\n<p>We laughed; we texted, we talked every day<br \/>\nWe made love in the most incredible way<br \/>\nIt was the first time I understood \u201cyou complete me\u201d<br \/>\nIn every minute of every day I thought you would be.<\/p>\n<p>Now my heart is broken, my soul filled with grief<br \/>\nLooks like this wonderful love will be so brief<br \/>\nWhere once every single day you needed me<br \/>\nYou have chosen without me you prefer to be.<\/p>\n<p>No longer you need to hear the sound of my voice<br \/>\nOut of your life is now your very sad choice.<br \/>\nCast aside like last week\u2019s news<br \/>\nI never thought I\u2019d be the one to lose.<\/p>\n<p>You had such passion, such love to give<br \/>\nYour small imperfections I\u2019d easily forgive.<br \/>\nFor me you were a beacon of light<br \/>\nTogether just felt so incredibly right.<\/p>\n<p>But hoping and wishing that someday you will care<br \/>\nClinging so desperately to this thought I do not dare<br \/>\nOh, the hurt and the pain, I am so forlorn<br \/>\nToday I wish I had never been born.<\/p>\n<p>Where once every day you filled my life with joy<br \/>\nNow without you there is nothing to enjoy<br \/>\nMy very being has been wrapped up in you<br \/>\nWithout you in my life I don\u2019t know what to do.<br \/>\nYou made me feel important, loved and wanted so bad<br \/>\nEven with Emily you made me feel like a Dad<br \/>\nIt felt like \u201cfamily\u201d, something so important to me<br \/>\nI believed that some day, together we would be.<\/p>\n<p>There has been so much that I will cherish forever<br \/>\nThat I will ever forget you? No never!<br \/>\nThe girls. What colour? Has anyone told you today? Oh, so true!<br \/>\nThese were all things that I thought were special to you.<\/p>\n<p>I am where I am because I fell so in love with you<br \/>\nNow I am lost and don\u2019t know what to do.<br \/>\nYou have made it clear that you are done with me.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s a dagger in my heart and it will surely kill me.<\/p>\n<p>We have shared so much and I\u2019ve been there for you<br \/>\nI\u2019ve tried to help with what you needed to do<br \/>\nThat made me feel so good and I hoped some day<br \/>\nI\u2019d be with you and Emily to live together every day.<\/p>\n<p>I know now you don\u2019t love me, but I hope you can see<br \/>\nThat without you I am struggling as bad as it can be.<br \/>\nPlease think about what we\u2019ve had again and again<br \/>\nTry to be patient and understand my incredible pain.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t cast me aside in my hour of need<br \/>\nPlease hear my call for help and heed.<br \/>\nTo never feel my arms around you again<br \/>\nBrings tears of sadness and incredible pain.<\/p>\n<p>For Sarah to be loved by someone else now<br \/>\nTears at my heart and I don\u2019t know how<br \/>\nI will ever get over you, I don\u2019t think I can<br \/>\nI wanted so desperately to be your man.<\/p>\n<p>Life without you is what I dread<br \/>\nI am so much better off dead.<br \/>\nKnow that you are the most important thing in my life.<br \/>\nMy biggest regret is that I can\u2019t make you my wife.<\/p>\n<p>I feel worthless, lonely and filled with doubt<br \/>\nTo be in love is what life\u2019s all about<br \/>\nWith no one to care whether you live or die<br \/>\nTo go on each day, you have no idea why.<\/p>\n<p>I will never regret one minute that we have shared<br \/>\nIt was so very amazing that for a while you cared.<br \/>\nI am left a broken man, so horribly sad and upset<br \/>\nBut not one minute we shared will I ever regret.<\/p>\n<p>You were my Angel, my love and my reason to be<br \/>\nPlease never forget how important you are to me<br \/>\nWithout your love I have nowhere to go<br \/>\nYes, you\u2019ll forget me, but always know<\/p>\n<p>You were my one Babygirl and I will love you for all eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallen Angel Dark thoughts overwhelm me in every way So hard to write without tears today My heart is broken, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/denise.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}