Sweet Peggy

Bad drink and wrong decisions can put us on the wrong road.

   






                    






       Sweet Peggy.


 She is sitting alone in the warm  Florida's evenings.
 
 She is raw, sexy and like a wild cat in the tropics.
 
She is hungry, desperate and passionate.
 
Her dreams are confused, twisted and  never fulfilled.
 
Her dreams got twisted,
goals got lost somewhere.
Her destiny took her to places that left her empty and alone.
 
    Loneliness, desire and  reaching out too late.
    Left her stone cold today.
 
   She is hopeless, afraid and she is dreaming of love lost.
   Leaving her wishing to had held on to a old lover and friend.

   She called me on the phone.
   Asked me to stop by please.
   I stay with her for a moment.
   I left her alone. Hard to find kindness and love.
   When the highway is blocked by disappointment and fear.

Time, age and wisdom is learn with pain and many tests.
 
    Love, forgiveness and sadness is all we have left.
 
                  John Coyote

Author's Note

A old poem. A re-write with better skill. Thank you for assisting my kind friends on this site. Any errors. Please assist a old man. Never too old to learn.

Reviews

[Scandalous]

This is absolutely beautiful. Nothing else to say about it. It was finely written, it was powerful, it creates a sense of longing, of hoping, you mastered this piece very well for it being so short. In just a few passages you managed to bring a tear to my eye. Well done.

~ Scandalous

[SkinlessFrank]

I think that many those of us who have been around the block a few times know someone in our lives like Peggy. You capture the sadness in the helplessness that we feel when we try to reach out.

[HorrorMaster]

aww very good I like it

[Crystal Marie Dreier]

This is really good! I liked it a lot!

[An owl on the moon]

Such a painful music plays through your words... the letting go.. the loneliness... the wondering of past decisions. The emotion here speaks to us all.. and time can be the harshest of teachers.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

poignant exploration of the relationships in our lives and how they evolve or devolve throughout the times through character study in deep poetic form~

[Murtuza]

A lesson we can all learn from this poem is that we must choose how we live and not by what things around us influence us to. In the end we all need to seek help when in trouble and give help when needed. A nice read indeed :)

[Sarusai Hiryu]

strong and simple.

[*~*Butterfly Kisses*~*]

Sad write. Touching and heartfelt. Even without the picture I can imagine this woman in my mind.

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

So many emotions running through this poem. A little hint of saddness touchs the heart here, someone needing help, but you just feel at loos on how to help. In the end being a friend and a shoulder to lean on can go a long way!

[Alessander]

the sentiments are truly poetic Coyote, the execution itself needs a little tinkering (IMO). Not much, but phrases like "stone cold" and "love lost" are a little overused. I would opt for maybe some other description in lieu? I only say this because I like this piece, otherwise, this would have just been yet another "view" without a review.

Anyhow, the picture really does add to the pathos of time passing, and the "character" speaking realizing how fragile it all really is.