Maxine Douglas

Old Loves

You asked me why I was leavin’ . . .

Why I said it was bad from the start.

I couldn’t explain but I knew I couldn’t

Share you in your kind of life style.

I thought I was strong enough to do it

But my heart couldn’t take it anymore.

I’ve heard you’ve found another,

Our friends have seen you together.

It’s been so long since I held you next to me . . .

Sometimes I wonder if I did the right thing.

But I look at myself and I realize it was right.

You helped me a lot and helped me to understand

That lovin’ my man is where I should be

And how I’d feel if he did that to me.

We’ve both made new starts in our life . . .

You with your new wife

And me with the man of my life.

We’ve both learned . . .

And found what he had yearned for

Was the kind of love,

That together we are not above,

But can only give to the ones we now love.

Written:  March 9, 1982

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