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I wrote this poem about nine months ago, after my husband passed away. We had difficulties during our lives together, but I loved him more than myself! It was my way of asking others to see that I needed help to put to rest all the bad stuff from years gone by so that I could learn to let him go and he can rest peacefully.

Is Anybody Listening?

© Lisa Miller
Alone with the raging in my soul,
I know not where to turn.
I have opened up to some,
But this raging makes me burn.

My heart and soul are screaming,
But I try to hold it in,
For, they make me feel I'm wrong,
That my hurt is like a sin.

I am fighting for a way,
To be not weak and small.
But my pain is not subsiding,
Please someone hear my call!

I've done what they have asked,
Tried going down their path.
But they know not why I'm hurting,
They haven't felt the wrath.

I look to them sincerely,
I TRY to help them SEE,
But, they just don't understand it,
So they choose to leave me be.

I long to just be normal,
Then maybe they'll accept,
The reasons why I need them,
The reason why I've wept.

The demons they hold strong,
As, they've broken my life down.
Are they afraid of these monsters?
Is that why they seem to frown?

I'm afraid to admit,
The help that I need.
I don't want them to know,
That in my pai I BLEED.

I have learned how to live
With many kinds of pain,
But, I will never let,
My husband die in vain.

Because he was unkind,
So many years before,
I think his death, they want me,
To move on and IGNORE.

Tyrone can you hear me?
Can you please let them know,
That special part of you
That I just can't let go?

Is anybody listening?
Does anybody SEE?
Help me put to rest, my Ty,
Please help to set me free!

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Published: Mar 2008

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  • Hi. I have felt this same pain. They do not understand the pain the bleeding of the heart when we loose our soulmate. So I was left alone to. They say its in the past now. How can they say that after having him for 20 years and suddenly gone to where? I hope my soulmate like yours is fine and having fun. How can we not remember our loved one everyday. I think this poem is great as there must be many other soulmates left behind and family's don't understand. Best of Luck to you. Thank you for sharing.

    New Zealand Submitted Jul 2010
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  • I just recently loss my husband last August 15, 2010, it was sudden due to Aneurysms. It shocked me because I was texting him on the day of 13 August to fetch me at the office, then when I called him around 12.30 pm someone answered the phone, and I knew there's something wrong, then the news strike me, that my husband rush to the nearest hospital and when I came he is in coma for 1-hour. I really don't know what I felt, but the thing that I decided to transfer my husband to a complete hospital facility even though the doctors said he will not survive. But, I trust and have a full trust that my husband will be okay. Then, I pray hard on him to spare my husband's life but around 12.50 am of 15 August my husband declare death. I was devastated, I felt a very mixed emotions. What funny is I received his death certificate first rather than my marriage license, since where just 2-month married and we are still processing our papers so I can I can change name.

    Fely, Philippines Submitted Sep 2010
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  • We divorced nearly four years ago after 30 years of marriage. He remained very present in my life throughout this time. I know he loved me, but was the classic "serial cheater" . . . an addict. In fact, our relationship after the divorce was not so different than before. Only he had his own place and I knew about the girlfriends. I guess I was supposed to "move on" but never could. Now, he is dying of cancer and I can't imagine this world without him in it - if even at a distance. He was here for Thanksgiving with the family and when I brought him back to the hospice where he now lives, I fell apart. I need to prepare myself for his death, which is likely within the next month or two. I know I am expected to deliver a eulogy. What can I say when no one can possibly understand my unending love for him.

    Mary, Chicago Submitted Nov 2010
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  • This poem reminds me of the loss of my husband. He and I were together for 14 years. He passed away May 17, 2000. I felt that everyone wanted me to just pick up and be done with him because he was very unkind to many in the last years of his life. They didn't understand that we shared many wonderful times together and when he passed I lost the man I fell in love with. I have since moved on but think of my late husband daily. I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your poem.

    Tami California Submitted Dec 2010
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  • Hi I know exactly how u feel. My soulmate of 16 years was taken away from me in May 2009. He and I had loads of differences but he was a sweet caring man, Like an uncut diamond. Everyone kept telling me that I should let it go. It was God's will, fated, and it is in the past etc. Easy for those who say. Since that dreaded day all I feel is emptiness. In a world full of people I feel lonely...I try to appear as normal as possible when there are other loved ones around me but when I am alone emptiness screams at me. If there is one place that I want to be, it would be to be with him wherever he is....Let him go, forget him??? No way, that can only happen if I fall in a coma or I am in my coffin....Love just does not fade away in thin air, it lives forever in our hearts....

    Mala, Singapore Submitted Apr 2011
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  • Thank you for sharing this poem. It is exactly how I feel. No one seems to understand no matter how ''I TRY to help them SEE.'' The death of my husband has such a stronghold on me and I don't want to feel like this. This poem expresses everything exactly. Thank you for sharing.

    T, California Submitted Apr 2011
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  • My husband of four years passed away three months ago on 1/15/2011. He was 26 years old, and passed away after a car accident. We have three beautiful children, every day I look at them with pride because they are my daily reminder of him. We were separated at the time, we had many good times in our relationship, but mostly bad. Nobody understands the pain and heartache, I will always love that man.. He was my everything. But sometimes the love that you had for a person could be broken, hurt, and eventually change to a different form of love. He will always be my husband, I wish I could have had one last chance to show my love for him, tell him what he meant to me. Hold him and never let go.

    Elise, California Submitted Apr 2011
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  • My husband took his own life two months ago, March 14, 2011. We had a tumultuous marriage. We were madly in love, but fought madly as well. He had a mental illness and was difficult to deal with at times. The day he took his life, I had asked him to separate. Then he took his life. No one understands that I never stopped loving him any less, I could just not handle the fighting any longer. He was my soulmate. I am lost so lost without him. But how can I share that everyday, that I feel lost and alone everyday? That I want to hold him, that I no longer care how bad it was sometimes, I would give anything to have him back here, in my arms.

    Ronda, Portland Submitted May 2011
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  • My husband of 34 yrs passed away on July 12th followed by a kidney transplant he had been waiting on for 7 yrs. Things went well, he also was diabetic, high blood pressure, with Heart problems. I left him at 9 pm on Monday night to receive a call at 7:30 Tuesday morning to find out they had let him aspirate so that started the ball rolling to death. I am not sure how I feel I am in a fog, feel like he will walk in the house any time, going to bed and getting up is the worse for me and staying at home. I hope soon this will pass, I miss him so much, I feel like I wish I would go also, but I have to wonderful son's that are grown and they need me, and my mom is still with me plus my brother and sister so I have a lot to be thankful for but why don't I feel like it. Someone wake me up from this terrible dream.

    Star, TN Submitted Jul 2011
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  • I just recently lost my husband November 22nd this year only 2 weeks ago. I never felt pain like I have felt till now. He was killed in a horrible car accident on his way into work by a 17 year old kid. My husband was only 37 and I'm left with a 1 year old daughter to raise alone and I'm 31. My life has stopped my heart is broken and my mind is no longer working I'm going through the motions of everyday but its just a shell of alive right now. I thank God I got to spend 14 years of my life with my soul mate.

    Lisa, Michigan Submitted Dec 2011
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  • I lost my husband June 25, 2011. We had been married for 22 years. He was a great husband and always thought about his family. If only he would have taken care of and thought about himself. He died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease. He had worked all day outside removing a tree that fell on our fence in the backyard from a storm. He was so tired that night but I didn't feel it was unusual after all he had done that day.

    That night he fell asleep and never woke up. My whole world is empty and I don't care about life like I once did except I have children and grandchildren and my Mom is still alive.

    It seems no one understands the emptiness I feel inside and my life just going no where. I feel a love for him I'll never feel for any other. I wish I could have said goodbye to him and tell him I loved him. He died before I could get to him. All I do now is live with a broken heart. I do feel like he is now my angel from heaven.

    June, Missouri Submitted Feb 2012
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  • l lost my husband in a truck accident about 9 hours away from home...That was on 7th May 2007. let's almost 5 yrs since he died, and l STILL can't let him go. I have family/friends trying to get me to move on, but to me l am STILL married. He died at a young age of 37, l was 36...with 3 young boys who were 4, 7 and 9...l still love him, dream of him most nights...how DO you move on.....Leah

    Leah,, Thagoona Queensland Submitted Mar 2012
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  • On May 12, 2011 my husband woke up and was struggling to walk, I jumped out of bed to help him, he couldn't walk straight only sideways, I tell him I need to take him to the hospital, he refuses he insist I drive him home to Albuq, we were in Colorado, I tell him if he get's worse I will pull over and get help, just before getting to Pueblo CO, he starts getting seizures, I pull to the first gas station and yell for help, 3 men rush to help me, I call 911 they get there in less than 5 min, he's admitted, within 24 hrs he has MRI's and ct scan, they come to me with bad news, my husband has meningitis Asyphilitis of the brain, a fever of 107 degrees, his small brain stem separated from the brain and spine, his doctors tell me there is no DR. ,or surgery that can save him, I had to make the decision to let him go, I put my ear over his heart and hear his last heart beat, the next one was in heaven. RIP my husband Joseph O Obeyta.

    Las Vegas Nevada Submitted 6/12/2012
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  • My husband Major Gaylen Jarvie. Died from cancer a brain tumor.
    September 11 2011.

    It seems no one understands the emptiness I feel inside and my life just going no where.
    I have a lot to be thankful for but why don't I feel like it. Someone wake me up from this terrible dream.
    My life has stopped my heart is broken and my mind is no longer working.

    Everyone kept telling me that I should let it go. It was God's will, fated, and it is in the past etc. Easy for those who say. Since that dreaded day all I feel is emptiness. In a world full of people I feel lonely...I try to appear as normal as possible when there are other loved ones around me but when I am alone emptiness screams at me. If I were dead, this pain and the PAIN would go away.

    Lori Submitted 7/26/2012
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  • My husband Terry died in a tragic motorcycle accident. Everyday my life is empty. He is my life. I always pray to GOD to give me strength.

    Tacoma, WA Submitted 1/18/2013
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  • My husband has passed away Jan-2013 . We'd been married almost 9 years. He died of liver cancer . He was the most amazing husband. I miss him every day. I love him so much. The pain is very hard for me. I have mixed emotions every day. He is my prince charming. He hold the key to my heart always...RIP

    Joann, Spokane Submitted 3/3/2013
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  • My darling husband passed away Feb. 24, 2012. At first I felt relief for him, because he had gone through so much trying to stay here with all of us. It was not unexpected, we did have time to share our most intimate feelings on the matter with each other. In a way that is a good thing, but in a way it is not. I saw him die ever so slowly, I lost my soul mate long before his actual death. Our life had changed but our love for one another never waivered. In 22 years he never made me cry, he never broke my heart, he never lied to me unless it was a birthday surprise. He always made me feel like I was the most beautiful woman in the world. His soul loved my soul. I know I will love him forever. I want nothing more then to be with him again, feel his arms around me, hear his voice, kiss his lips. I am so alone, I have God and he helps me, but God is a spiritual presence, I yearn for my husband the man, the person that he was. I must be patient until the Lord calls me home also..

    Christina, Sun City Submitted 3/16/2013
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