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The Day We Left Forever Behind
A Poem
vows make for nice words on a page,
the script elegant and fine to the eye,
but the lasting promises behind them?
oh, we had no idea, did we?
you thought you knew it all,
the in’s and out’s of love triumphant,
because you were just a small-town boy
with a narrow view of what love was
your mama told you to never trust
the girl who laughed too long
or held on too tight and too often —
because then you’d never get away
your daddy didn’t give many cues
because he was a man’s man
who knew no better about hearts
than what beat inside a deer’s chest
and I thought I knew you —
the untold story no one else
could ever hope to touch or tame —
but I was never right when it came to you
your hands were sweaty
the day they clasped mine
in front of a hundred witnesses
who knew us by our names alone
