Oh, wow. This poem is amazing. I think it might be your best yet! I love how sweet and happy the beginning is, with just the right amount of melancholy and nostalgia, but then the end is such a horrible, painful gut punch.
I did start off thinking you were writing about your husband, but I realized near the end it was a different love. Which made it more powerful once I knew that. Because I think we all have those moments of our life with someone (either romantic or just platonic) where things were just good and happy and looking back on it with lots of time past just makes it more wistful (of course, sometimes, looking back on it from afar also can make things seem better than they were because it's easy to not remember so clearly the un-good moments). Especially when the person is not really part of your life anymore.
I'm glad you decided not to opt out and wrote this instead, because this is great!
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Date: 2021-02-10 07:47 pm (UTC)I did start off thinking you were writing about your husband, but I realized near the end it was a different love. Which made it more powerful once I knew that. Because I think we all have those moments of our life with someone (either romantic or just platonic) where things were just good and happy and looking back on it with lots of time past just makes it more wistful (of course, sometimes, looking back on it from afar also can make things seem better than they were because it's easy to not remember so clearly the un-good moments). Especially when the person is not really part of your life anymore.
I'm glad you decided not to opt out and wrote this instead, because this is great!