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# numbers divided
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/numbers-divided/
- Published: 2020-08-15T17:08:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:26:51.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Longing and Desire, #Heartbreak and Loss, #Quarter Crazy Marathon 2020 Q3, #3

five days ago  
i wrote to you  
wishing I’d hear from you  
  
three weeks ago  
you wrote to me  
but, one word will never do  
  
nine years ago  
we scened but once  
i fell so hard for you  
  
eight years age-difference  
seemed zero  
there was naught one could do  
  
in all that time  
and all these years  
i never wished from you to part  
  
and i will say  
this honestly:  
i couldn’t muster a fresh start  
  
t'was hardly fair  
to you or me -  
what rules a lover’s heart?  
  
when memories,  
day-terrors shook,  
took hold, our minds and lives we thwart  
  
and dismay now  
is lasting grief  
so little left, have we to show  
  
from years of love  
of dreams dreamt well  
shoved into corners, urged to grow  
  
this madness left  
of why we split  
of i insisting that you’d go  
  
was spawned of love  
for, split we were  
now, negative is all i know  

[***Quarter Crazy Marathon***](https://www.facebook.com/qtrcrazy)  
*Quarter 3 - Saturday, August 15, 2020* 
*Prompt 1 - 9am EST*