A Sad Story of Two Sides

A Sad Story of Two Sides

Part one

That fateful night that we did meat

You voiced your future dreams

Expressing your ideals of life

And what your past had been

The torment that you spoke of

Prier heartache and deceit

I swore to you from that day on

Your heartache was deceased

Speaking with such honesty

Like we had known each other years

Declaring all our past mistakes

That made us who we were

It was obvious you were special

As I gazed into your eyes

Inseparable from that day on

Our love it came alive

They exquisite beauty that is you

I expressed it every day

You’re dazzling smile a gift from above

With eyes so stunning and filled with love

The sent of your skin

Shear contentment and hope

The feel of your body

Did never grow old

I would every day awaken

With excitement in my eyes

The warm curl of your body

Laying right they’re by my side

Darling soaly you were the source

Of all my hopes and dreams 

The excitement of this unknown love

A fantastic, wondrous thing

So generous and so kind

Your heart was made of gold

You preceded each and every dream

Of love I’d ever known

I thought that then forever

These feelings would always stay

But confusion, hurt and heartache

Were already on they’re way

You said that I had given you

You’re lost hopes and your dreams

The things in life you’d never known 

That previously were unseen

A love that was so blinding

It was impossible to shade

An immortal life of happiness

A love that couldn’t fade

It wasn’t too much longer

before it all went wrong

Your dormant side erupted

Like I’d never seen before

The things you once just called your dreams

More a reality they just became

So an appreciation was just left behind

For that love and life you searched to find

Part Two

I should have realised it at the time

But my love was blind to your disguise

When you have the things you craved

You let your guard just slip away

Your alter ego, it materialised

It was the start of the madness that ruined our lives

Out came your poisonous alternative side

A devotion and love lost deep in your mind

Your disregard and foolish pride

This new compulsion for vicious lies

Your shame now vacant with separated minds

She’s cast you dormant and hypnotised

My saddest day in a tortured life

Was the sorrow I felt when I gazed in your eyes

So deserted and lost just a stranger gazed back

Masquerading as you, like your face was a mask

I pined for the angel so lost deep inside

buried so deep like a fossil through time

The traits in  the people you claimed to dislike

Became who you were and a part of your life

Falling so hard I crashed through the door

Into the bitter reality and pain of it all

This truth that I’d searched so hard to find

Just left me demolished and broken inside

So shocked and distraught the tears couldn’t fall

My heart it just shattered and tore out my soul

It’s an irony of such cruelty

That love has caused this pain

A hurt and confusion that’s here to stay

This heartache I feel it grows every day 

Karma’s vacated and gone far away

It’s me once again who suffers your mistakes

Paying for believing you were who you said

A dream that’s now rotten like the thoughts in your head

I should have known better

But I believed every word

Never once I imagined

You could cause me this hurt

Rose tinted glasses wrapped round my eyes

Blinded by love and your clever disguise

I know that too, your heart is broken

It’s plain to see your strain and torment

At least you’ve got yourself to blame

I never deserved this tortuous pain

You changed from an angel

To bad and then worse

One side of you my soul mate

The other a curse

I gave you a love and we created our dreams

In return all I got was a heart filled with pain

But the past it doesn’t matter any more

All our future dreams are dead, buried and gone

By Chris Atkinson

Reviews

[Brianna Brie]

This one feels like a story being unfolded in front of our eyes. Part I flows flawlessly. Part II might benefit from chopping a few words here and there to keep with the pace. That being said this is an excellent write full of emotion and projects a strong voice of the narrator. Love is just so complicated, because people are complicated. Our pasts always affect the way we react to the present especially when the past is unresolved or lacks forgiveness. Thanks for sharing, Chris! This poem must be close to your heart as a true writer will write until they are vulnerable.

[Chris Atkinson]

thank you very much for you review Brianna, Its much apriciated. You''re right about it being close to my heart, it's writen about my lost soul mate. thanks again Brianna

[Gee]

Bollocks,thought this was gonna be about the Tyne,Wear derby........on a serious note a very well written emotional piece Chris

[Honey-Bee]

Love happens like this sometimes. Interestingly written with two parts to the poem. Love it!

[Chris Atkinson]

Thank you very much for your review Honey. I really appriciate it and I am very happy you enjoyed it. Thanks again.

[FireFox9]

I like it. The use of two different parts makes the poem more interesting. I think it's quite good. Fox-

[Chris Atkinson]

Thanks for all of your reviews firefox, they are all greatly apriciated. I am glad you like them

[Girl With A Pen]

This is very powerful and the lurking of sadness from each stanza is remarkable. You really know how to invoke emotion to the reader

[Chris Atkinson]

thank you so much for your kind words and review, I am happy liked it. I had to get it off my chest and writing is always my relice. Thanks again