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Goodbye

Joe McLaughlin

Her head was on my chest,
With a peaceful smile, on her face.
That amazing naked body,
Lay gently, in my embrace.

I softly kissed her forehead,
And she urged her hips, closer to mine.
This would be our last time together,
Our story, was at its last line.

And we didn’t know.

About this poem

One of the most selfless and honest relationships I have had. If only we had known that this night would have been our last together, what might we have done differently?

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Written on October 25, 2019

Submitted by JoseCanUC on September 21, 2023

Modified by JoseCanUC on November 06, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 278
Words 63
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
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Joe McLaughlin

Raised on a small farm outside of a small town in Texas, I was no stranger to work. It is this work ethic that has propelled my professional success but there is this other side of me. The side that deeply thinks about things. The side with an imagination and a desire to use my hands for more than just brute physical labor. more…

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