Welcome back!! It's so great to see something new from you, and I'm quite sure you are ecstatic to hve written it!
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I love the air of mystery in the first stanza.... What was the news? Who is the one "leaving"? Why the hate?

Then it's all spelled out... but not totally in the 2nd stanza. We've all been there...

Very nice, indeed.

Keep 'em coming!

I like the air of mystery in this. It's vague but poignant, if that makes any sense :)

I've definitely read better by you, but this is a beautiful beginning to what I'm sure will be a poetry filled year. Keep it up!
Love ya, Holly
(That sounds more like me, now it's off to bed, lol)

Kind of made me sad...reason being is I see myself in that place...for the demise of my father...would I say that too? Hmmm...some people don't understand the damage a parent can do to a person even into their adulthood...it never goes away. I like this becuase it wasn't in your face brutal like most of would have put it...it was such a mysteriously nice blow...I like!!!