Thread: Why?

This is my first submission, and is insanely personal to be posting so please be gentle with me.

Why do I still have thoughts of you,
and wonder where you are?
Why contemplate what could have been
When I have come so far?

Why does your hand in hers cut deep
When I've a hand to hold?
Why do my dreams still take me to
Our life, Our plans of old?

When will I cease to wonder how
or why we went so wrong,
Or if a different choice of path
Was right there all along?

Why is it when I heard the news
I wondered what you thought?
Why is it that your touch and kiss
I ponder more than I ought?

Why is it that you broke my heart
and tore my dreams in two,
and yet in every private thought
I still revert to you?

Why is it, though your heart is hers
and I have a new guise,
That in my heart I know for sure
That true love never dies?

the poem flows along, has the ability to evoke emotion and draw the reader in, therefore I say this is a good poem. I really like this poem...

Poems of this nature usually come of as nothing other than something for the diary. This one is much better than that and I think you've managed to put it across in a way that gives a universal appeal. The rhythm falters in a few places and I suggest that you do a syllable count and try to tighten it a little.

I agree with Baron that tightening some of the lines can make it flow much better. It's clear there's emotion in this piece, and that is nearly always a positive for the reader. It can reach a wide audience with it's emotional (yet refreshingly simplistic) style of writing. The rhyming is beneficial to the flow of the poem, and it does not seem forcefully executed. A good starter piece, blondepoet.