My Lost Love Poem by Paul Warren

Did I make a promise I couldn't keep
Of whispered words to make your life complete
Did we lie together on the sand
As I gently picked up and kissed your trembling hand
Did we walk together until I had to go
And now I regret not keeping you or letting our love grow

Perhaps if things had been different then
I would have been able to keep you and for it not to end
But young men don't think always of these things
Or in the end the suffering in parting that it brings
So all I do now is sit and think of those olden days
When you could have been mine for ever and always.

© Paul Warren Poetry