Forgive me

I don't believe forgiveness can be given. Time is the healer. Written in 1978.

Forgive me

Please forgive me for what I did to you.

I'm sorry I torture you with lies and treated
you as I did.

I was young.
Learning to love.

Finding the many mistakes young lover's can make.

I left you alone and swimming in tears and loneliness.

I hope all your thoughts of me are not filled with hate.

But filled with fond memories of two lovers learning
to touch and  to love.

Even through our ending ended in anger and sadness.
We allowed the world to separate us.

You are still a beautiful face and tender memories I can't forget.

I hope I didn't destroy your desire to love and feel.

I hope your new beginning are filled with happiness and joy.

I hope you didn't throw away all the love we held and gathers.

You came and said goodbye to me.
I was leaving Germany.
We held each other for the last time.

I whispered.
Thank you sweet lady for sharing love with a foolish man.

                   Coyote
                   1978

Author's Note

A old poem. Young people must learn to understand to be kind and gentle in the emotion of love.

Reviews

[Ian Faraway]

"Even THOUGH our ending ended..." Not through. A few other grammatical mistakes but other than that I LOVED it! Sometimes all we have are memories. Even when the person we love or care about is long gone or no longer who they were, we can still look back at the memories and smile with a few bitter sweet tears. J'adore!

[Ascending]

Speechless... Amazing poem!


-Joetry

[joshua deathdealer]

This is beautiful. So very beautiful.. 100

[V]

Honest, direct and true. Lovely but also sad words. Many emotions behind simple words.

[......]

This is one heck of a tugger and so emotional.

[Tarry Franck]

This is so great - Hoping my ex-husband would feel the same about me! Very emotional.

[Aianarie (INACTIVE)]

Oh my goodness, I loved this poem. The emotions are so raw and true to life. I almost cried after reading the last line. To be able to write words that have that kind of effect on your readers is a precious gift.

Thank for sharing this poem; it's amazing.

[Barbara Walker]

The subject matter is as old as time but will never be tiring. I was just a bit confused when you would write from past tense, then change to present tense. I am speaking more of the seventh and eighth lines from the bottom. I am not sure what you meant by the word gathers, in the sixth line from the bottom. Still, your intent comes shining through and the emotions are honest and sweet.

[light and ashes]

Beautiful poem, moved me to tears. The greatest regret in our life and the one that will haunt us the most is hurting the ones that we love, 100

[nicolettox]

"I was young.
Learning to love."
these lines could be the same (almost cliché) old excuse people give. HOWEVER, they are not. In your poem you do nothing but take responsibility for the damage done and you hope all the best to whom this poem is written, when you say

"I hope I didn't destroy your desire to love and feel.
I hope your new beginning are filled with happiness and joy.
I hope you didn't throw away all the love we held and gathers."

because of this, I can see that you've grown and learnt from your experience, and that's praiseworthy.

this is a great poem, beautifully penned and heartfelt.
thank you for sharing this! =)

[Leigh]

This is said with real meaning as 1978 is a long time ago, she must've meant something to you as you recall with pain - I can relate this to some of my poetry I have posted and therefore I can only assume people being foolis in love when they are young is very common place. Thanks for sharing this..