12-2-18
The connections we make with one another are often inexplicable in how deeply interwoven they may be. Those we’ve had long-standing relationships can leave our hearts and minds quicker than the stranger that offered help one time ten years ago. There’s nothing right or wrong with these differences in responses. It’s extremely interesting regardless.
There isn’t much in this world like our first loves. They’re hardly ever the person we end up being with at the ends of our lives, yet they still are rooted in our hearts and minds… for better or worst. The loss of these relationship for many also signify the loss of innocence, if nothing else the transition into a new phase of emotional understanding.
Relationships of this magnitude come with their own spirit and life. When the relationship dies, it can feel just the same as any person your close too passing. This grief is very difficult to address.
When this former l’ve is connected to an actual physical loss of that person, whether its been 10 hours, 10 days, or 10 years the emotional impact of that loss, and the grief that is created is indistinguishable. Time is irrelevant to emotions like grief. Emotional scars that rest so intimately within the spirit may begin to heal but they are easily agitated. Time soothes these responses, but the reminiscence of these pains still linger, even if only slightly.
Lyrics:
First you beat me up
Then you kissed me too
We’d throw stones into the sea
There were no others there
Just you and me
Across the bridge and down the lane
I knew I loved you then
You said you did the same
I should have seen it coming
Into your sight I’d run
Oh maggie, come to me tonight
I will wait up for you
Make sure you’re alright
I miss you
When I was scared that day
You just pushed me in
And when nobody was around
You let me kiss you then
There the love I found
I said I’d never let you go
You just smiled at me
How was I to know?
How I can live with only memories of you?
Oh, maggie, tell me the truth
When your ship was sinking
Did you think it through?
I miss you
And when I fumbled
You showed me what to do
And when we were both seventeen
You left me standing there
But you were never mean
And when I saw you out with him
He looked much older
And you looked very thin
And then your mama called
She couldn’t speak for tears
She said you left me a note
Inside my pocket burns
With these words you wrote
I am forever yours
Now that I am free
We’ll be together
Throw stones into the sea
They’ll be no others there
Just you and me
I miss you
Maggie’s gone
You stroked my brow
Your eyes were full of light
May have only been a dream
But I would walk with you
To places I never have been
Maggie’s gone