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She Moved Me: A Poem on Love and Loss
A love and loss poem for the people who leave the room but never quite leave you — and the quiet ways they keep shaping who you become.
Some people leave the room and stay in the room at the same time. This is for one of them.
You remind me
Of a girl I used to know
She had so much soul
She loved to write poems
She’d roam on her own
An inner fire
That Seduced me
And Induced me
To be a better man
To have a better plan
For this journey called life
She’s gone now
But like a movie scene:
She moved me
The most lasting love letters aren’t always to the people we end up with. Sometimes they’re to the ones who briefly rearranged the architecture and then left. She moved me. That stays.
— JTC