Series of Love: If I Loved You

We have all had the chance to live, love, and lose. Some we wished we loved a little harder (maybe they would've stayed), a little less (to not look needy), and some not all (these are the ones we blame for the 15 pounds gained or lost). Either way we've all had hot and steamy or cold and dry sessions of love. From each experience we hoped that we learned something, anything that would keep us from making or keep us making the same decision over again.

Well, I'm going to attempt to tap into those sessions. April 14, 2007--I was lucky enough to look at a card full of writing prompts for love. Those prompts are turning into beautiful poems that take us back to uncontrollable leg shaking, needing rehab cuz we're in so deep, or maybe just a reason to admit, "Hell, we ain't together for a good a$$ reason!"

The first poem I wrote at the workshop. Welcome to the series...Enjoy!!


If I Loved You

than heartache would've stayed
outside cold and wet
singing the blues that i hear now

if i loved you
than setting fire to the place
where you slept
would've been a bad dream
instead of the reality
that has me handcuffed to
a dead thought

if i loved you
i wouldn't be so eager
to remove the very essence
of you from my personal space
YES, the window had to go--
you touched it once

you told me empty words
of faith-fully going to
every warm kiss
straying from home
and still i didn't care

now don't you think if i loved you--
please, i don't know why
i'm writing this...
i still don't

(To be continued.....)