Monday, June 22, 2015

I Saw An Old Friend… Comments

Rating: 5.0

I saw an old friend,
And things were just fine.
We were still friends after all…
Or so I thought at the time.
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Sana Olivia Hernandez
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Daniel Brick 21 November 2015

I believe this is a universal experience, I may be wrong but I think all of us have witnessed the slow dying and then the final death of what we thought would be a lasting friendship.Your detailed and progressive account makes the inevitability believable. The tension created by the slow pace of this poem is almost unbearable, I wanted to skip ahead to verify the sad conclusion but I did not because I also realized this is a song of the hurt heart. The role of the reader/listener is to be the patient witness and that means the whole of it, not just bits and pieces.

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Jaishree Nair 22 June 2015

Enjoyed the envision. Thanks for sharing

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Sana Olivia Hernandez

Sana Olivia Hernandez

Roseburg, Oregon
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