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# Silver Linings
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/silver-linings/
- Published: 2020-08-15T21:43:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:48:18.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Quarter Crazy Marathon 2020 Q3, #Love and Romance, #Conflict and Reckoning, #Heartbreak and Loss, #Source Memoir, #23, #13

There were so many moments shared with you  
Long walks through Montreal, Toronto, too  
Night drives on cobbled streets in Buffalo  
And never, then, did others know of you  
  
I shirk to show the bruises, faded, old  
And gone from view; so much I never told  
‘A silver lining,’ ‘True Love Conquers’ - so  
I lived, trusted your eyes of em’rald-gold  
  
I trusted in your reason and your mind,  
Expected love - but never love maligned  
The whirlwind I became to remain free  
Upheld, punished - still, through all, I was blind  
  
A silver lining brightened every day  
But not from you and that tumult’ous play  
The brightness, love existed but in me  
Your bitter words spawned with me dark affray  
  
We should have parted, been no more than friends  
If but we wished to find harmon’ous ends  
Yet, all I have now is a memory  
Devoid of hopes to, one day, make amends  
  
With no way back, with truth, I move ahead  
Peek back proves I, that silver lining led  
And I, my own responsibility  
Free from the man I wish I’d never wed  
  
  
[Quarter Crazy Marathon ](https://www.facebook.com/qtrcrazy)Quarter 3 - 2020  
*Prompt 3 - 11am EST*  
Music Prompt - Response to *My Silver Lining* by First Aid Kit