Tuesday 18 October 2011

A Toast To All (poem) by Bobby Stevenson




To all the love,
That died unspoken,
To all the hearts,
So gently broken,
To all the tears,
That fell unseen,
To all the things,
That might have been.

3 comments:

  1. Bobby, that's deceptively simple, and beautifully sad. There's a bit of me that wants to turn the last line into 'That still might be' but then I always want a happy ending! x

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  2. Ach well Sharon, it wouldn't have rhymed :-) x

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  3. Changed the tense on it Sharon - thought it worked better in the past.

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