Poetry reading # 7 from “Poems of the Heart”
I share with you two poems: “Before You Come,” and “Seven Ways I Lost You”
Poetry Reading: “Seven Ways I Lost You”
drcelucienjoseph, "Thinking and Meditating"
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drcelucienjoseph, "Thinking and Meditating" 
Reading Before You Come felt like walking into a room where love is still quietly glowing. Lines like “my life was a guitar with no melodic chords” and “you wrote the full song” are so vulnerable and precise — they turn love into something musical, something that gives structure to a life that once felt broken. That image of being wrapped in someone’s smile and finding rest there is especially beautiful.
And then Seven Ways I Lost You breaks that music apart. Each regret feels like its own small wound — from the first kiss that “opened a door I couldn’t close” to the way “I love you” becomes something that now hurts instead of heals. By the time you reach “Now, I’m fluent in loss,” it feels like the speaker has learned a whole new language made out of grief.
What moved me most is how the two poems speak to each other: one about being found and one about being left, like two faces of the same heart. There’s so much honesty here, and it stays with you long after you finish reading.
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Thank you so much for enjoying reading the poem. It means a lot to me.
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