EVERYBODY HURTS

Memory of lost love

EVERYBODY HURTS We stood there as the song played and you looked into my eyes. “Everybody hurts” you said “it’s just a fact of life.” I held your hand so tightly never wanting to let go; I didn’t hear the message I didn’t want to know. But now in looking back in time it seems so very clear; you were telling me goodbye but I held you with my tears. And so the game played on a while, you came and then you left; leaving me at times alone and feeling so adrift. Then came the day you said good-bye, and my heart fell to the floor, I thought I’d have to die right there, for life held nothing more. I never thought the pain would leave, but it did and I survived. But sometimes when I hear that song there’s an aching deep inside. © Forrest Phelps-Cook