By Charles Robert Lindholm
You’re supposed to be brave
You’re not supposed to cry
but I fumbled with my smile each time
I was forced to mumble, Hi!
Sitting in the airport
for a ten day business trip
I can keep the tears from falling
If I bite my upper lip
I was ambushed at the front door
with the truth about her lies
there were no hugs or kisses
when we said our last good-byes
She disguised the clues so cleverly
she didn’t want me to know
and now, no vow could hold her
she’s packing up to go
Overlapping Lovers
I found out way to late
standing in a line
waiting at the gate
I fumbled with my smile, again
offering up my name
as my broken heart reminds me
Life won’t be the same
© 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
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4-1-2017 April Fools Day 6:30 a.m.
Please visit – “Decisions” by Linda Rose of Scatterednotebooks!
This wonderful poem provided the inspiration for my poem here and I owe her a huge Thank You!! Gold Stars for Linda who has now joined my “Inspirators Gang” (someone who has provided the seed, the spark that spawned a poem from me).
This is yet another example of the benefit of keeping a Word Bank when you run across something that hits you as Great! I made a deposit in Linda’s account in my Word Bank for “I fumbled with my smile” and Boom, now it has paid dividends!!
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