#missedopportunities - Hello Poetry

*I kept looking at the clock Counting minutes and hours Here, time carried me away Relatively, to a distant place Finding myself a stranger Mind delving in past hour Where time stops for none But the clock had stopped Seconds seemed an eternity Abracadabra! My mind was tricked Believing, I could manipulate time I kept looking at the clock*

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Aug 18, 2014

Aug 18, 2014 at 9:20 AM UTC

amitav

Timing

*I kept looking at the clock Counting minutes and hours Here, time carried me away Relatively, to a distant place Finding myself a stranger Mind delving in past hour Where time stops for none But the clock had stopped Seconds seemed an eternity Abracadabra! My mind was tricked Believing, I could manipulate time I kept looking at the clock*

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I saw you standing by the door as I swayed and rocked on the dance floor. The music was familiar, I could follow the rhythm, the melody; it seemed to be the missing part of me-- my unspoken sorrow, and sexuality. You seemed immature. I didn’t try to understand what you were saying. Your offered hand, I rejected. I thought you were adolescent, smirky trying to shock, pretending to be ***** It didn’t make me feel like being flirty. In fact, you reminded me of everything I despised. I couldn’t see the pain in your eyes or peel away the lies to hear the truth that you were saying. A few decades later, here we are. I’ve now found myself hitched to your star. Do I now understand who you are– or did you change-- older, wiser, the pretense gone? I”m so sorry to arrive at this party so late. Forgive me– I was blind, I was deaf, I needed someone to hate.

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Dec 8, 2023

Dec 8, 2023 at 10:37 PM UTC

scarlet-mccall

Regrets

I saw you standing by the door as I swayed and rocked on the dance floor. The music was familiar, I could follow the rhythm, the melody; it seemed to be the missing part of me-- my unspoken sorrow, and sexuality. You seemed immature. I didn’t try to understand what you were saying. Your offered hand, I rejected. I thought you were adolescent, smirky trying to shock, pretending to be ***** It didn’t make me feel like being flirty. In fact, you reminded me of everything I despised. I couldn’t see the pain in your eyes or peel away the lies to hear the truth that you were saying. A few decades later, here we are. I’ve now found myself hitched to your star. Do I now understand who you are– or did you change-- older, wiser, the pretense gone? I”m so sorry to arrive at this party so late. Forgive me– I was blind, I was deaf, I needed someone to hate.

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At times I think of what could’ve been if fate had been kinder on my part and let us begin our lives wherein our love for each other would’ve blossomed into art but as I see you in the warm embrace of another seeing that you have found love, a missing piece that you sought It never fails to make me quickly remember that everything was just a wishful thought.

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Dec 29, 2018

Dec 29, 2018 at 8:27 PM UTC

Noltser

“Thoughts”

At times I think of what could’ve been if fate had been kinder on my part and let us begin our lives wherein our love for each other would’ve blossomed into art but as I see you in the warm embrace of another seeing that you have found love, a missing piece that you sought It never fails to make me quickly remember that everything was just a wishful thought.

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