You’re Leaving



You’re  Leaving

You’re leaving,
And there is nothing I can do about it.
Nothing I could say,
Would make you stay.

You’re leaving,
I wish I could turn you around,
And make you see,
Just how much you mean to me.

You’re leaving,
But I want you to know,
That I love you,
More than words can show.

You’re leaving,
And I’m letting you go,
Cause I know you don’t belong,
To the world I know.

You’re leaving,
But I wish you could,
See my tears,
Hear my cry,
Feel my need,
Walk back to me,
And never say goodbye.

About this poem

I wrote this poem in 1995. I met this gentleman who was moving away. I liked him a lot. I say ‘like’ because I was just beginning to find out that what I felt for him. You like people before you love them, right? So, this was it. Actually, I still do. Funny thing is, he didn’t know I liked him that much. This poem was published in our local newspaper, on Wednesday the 17th of January 1996.

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Written on September 28, 1995

Submitted by crbefumo on June 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme a Axbb Axcc Adxd Adxd Axxexce
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 524
Words 127
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7

Carmen Josephine Travas.

I love poetry. I’ve been writing since the 80’s. No one knew that I write. Actually, just a couple of friends knew that I did. Writing was therapeutic to me. You know, just letting it out, a release sort off. I wrote short articles. One of them got published in the newspaper. I wrote a play called “Christmas once more”. No one has read it, but my mother-in-law. She loved it. I am not a writer. I didn’t go to school for that. I’m just a simple, ordinary, reserved and quiet person. I met my husband on this website in the year 2005. I had to review his poem, we connected and he flew across 2 continents to get married to me. Of course there was a lot of correspondence and phone calls in between. I saw him in person when he came down to get married to me. We are still married and have a daughter who is 14. I now live in the States with my husband Robert and my daughter Cara. more…

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