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A poem written be a woman who was abandoned by an important person in her life. Though the experience has made her a stronger person, she sometimes wishes to go back to the time when this person was in her life

While You Weren't Here

© Janet Michael
While you weren't here
I cried every night
A million tears fell
Still my heart wasn't right

While you weren't here
I did what I could
Hoping against hope
My decisions were good

While you weren't here
I gained some in age
Things just went on
And life turned a page

While you weren't here
I just tried to go on
Knowing what didn't kill me
Would only make me strong

While you weren't here
A whole lot got changed
My life became different
My world rearranged

While you weren't here
I had to learn to be alone
To stand on my two feet
To make my own home

So that's where I am now
At this stage of my life
Still scared and alone
Still coping with strife

And oh how I wish that
Things could be different
That I could go back
To a time in the past

To a time before
You weren't here

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Published: Feb 2006

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  • This is a very special poem. It reminds me of my mother, (RIP). I was left with many different people when I was a child
    and I cried many tears wishing my mom was near. In my heart as a child I knew she would return and she did. I recall when my mothers mom died and mom cried for days. Mom told me as she wiped away her tears that when you lose your mother you lose your best friend. Yes, I still miss my mother and I wish she were here.

    Mozelle, Houston Texas Submitted May 2010
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