Writer’s Workshop — You Never Knew What I Loved in You

Fandango

For his Writer’s Workshop this week, John Holton gives us six writing prompts and we are tasked with choosing one of the prompts (or as many as we want) and writing a post that addresses that (or those) prompt(s). I chose three prompts for this week: (1) use the word “sleep,” and (2) write a post in exactly 8 sentences, and (5) Take a line from a song you like and use it as the title for your post, then let your ideas flow. The line I chose is from the Jackson Browne song, “Late for the Sky.”

Sleep has alluded me over the past few nights because I can’t stop thinking about the two of us. I lay here in bed awake yet again, you at my side, and I wonder if we are nearing the end of the deep love we once felt for each other.

I feel as though you never knew what I loved in you and I certainly don’t know what you loved in me. Yet for a while our paths, tightly intertwined, seem to climb. But as I look at you in your sleep and hear your steady breathing, I realize that we have become perfect strangers with little to say to one another anymore.

How is it that those magic feelings we once shared have drifted into the past and our bright future together slipped between the fingers of our hands?

I must accept that neither of us is the person we hoped the other would be. I’ll be gone when you wake up in the morning, and I hope you, too, will see, as I have, that we have reached the end of the road together.


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12 thoughts on “Writer’s Workshop — You Never Knew What I Loved in You”

  3. Geoff Stamper June 13, 2024 / 6:43 am

    Well written. I remember my Dad explaining when I was young that this is one of saddest things in life (although I realize now he himself did not experience it).

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    • Fandango June 13, 2024 / 11:28 am

      Thanks. It happens to a lot of people when they realize that what was once a love so strong fades into just memories.

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  5. John Holton June 13, 2024 / 12:39 pm

    How sad… I know it happens, and happens just like this; still, how sad…

    Thanks for participating!

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  6. Astrid June 13, 2024 / 12:40 pm

    Excellent write! I am so glad that I never experienced this.

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  8. leigha66 June 13, 2024 / 10:32 pm

    A wonderful write of a love that fizzled out. Too often it happens.

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