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Your Going Away

by Philip F De Pinto



I didn't know what else to say
To prevent your going away

So I leaped in a pool of tears
Who could not swim a stroke

And what did she toss me
Who was drowning in a pool of tears?

But what she found in her purse
Which was a mint lifesaver

But what she found in her cereal bowl
Which was a cheerio

But what she found on her finger
Which was a wedding ring


I didn't know what else to say
To prevent your going away

But I rest my head on the pool's bottom
Content you did your best to prevent my going away






07/03/2009

Posted on 07/03/2009
Copyright © 2010 Philip F De Pinto

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Clara Mae Gregory on 07/03/09 at 08:19 AM

Philip what a way with words you have.OH,my gosh, this is so sad.

Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 07/04/09 at 03:24 PM

Mr. De Pinto... It has been a spell... Gone away from your words have I... To return to you changed, but not changed at all... Thank God. Poignant, sad and brilliant... I pray this is written from an outside perspective-for it is that affecting...

Posted by Kate Demeree on 07/05/09 at 10:37 PM

*tears*........ I Love Your Heart, soul and wonderful talent... and I love reading you... dear Philip

Posted by Kris Mara on 07/10/09 at 04:44 PM

you really do have a way of telling a story...I'm agreeing with the above comments....very sad...

Posted by Glenn Currier on 09/22/09 at 11:25 AM

This is so heavy with sadness and grief expressed with almost suffocating impact with the pool metaphor. Brilliant way to express how a loss seems to drain the oxygen. I was about to get into some anger toward her when you - in true pintoish fashion - lowered the boom of truth in the last line. Always reciprocal - relationships, yes? Thanks Phil.

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