I leave my footprints
where the water forgets
letting the tide erase
what I can’t carry home
the wind learns my name
and gives it back to me in pieces
a laugh
a promise
the space between your words
the horizon keeps our secrets
wide enough to hold
what we never finished saying
even the night knows you
the way the stars lean closer
as if listening
I gather their light like fragments of you
and press them to my chest
proof that absence can still glow
so I stay until the sky
exhales its last color
until my heart remembers
its own rhythm again
and when I leave
I take nothing
but the quiet certainty
that love
real love
never learns how to leave
The Creative Chic 
Excellent line:
“the wind learns my name
and gives it back to me in pieces”
Hope you are having a good morning. 💙
Thank you so much 💙 I hope you’re well and staying warm!
Getting by. I think we’ll be breaking single digits above zero in the next few days, so it’s time to put on the shorts and sandals ’round here. 😉
😂 and here I am freezing dowing here for a bit!
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what a beautiful photo Jennifer ❤
and yes, true love never leaves no matter how many times the waves churn up and change the arrangements of the sand. it'll always be there – not just the essence, but the full form of it and all it entails ❤ Mike
Thank you Michael ❤ gorgeous comment
Holy cow! I thoroughly loved your poem! Especially the very last line. It got me and was what I needed to read this morning! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you, Jared. What a wonderful thing to say! I’m so glad you enjoyed this writing.
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😭This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read in years. Your heart is such a rare and wonderful thing. Never change. ❤️
Oh girl 😭 thank you. I hope to never change and I hope you never do either. You complete me and I’m just so lucky to even know you❤️
🥲Same ❤️xoxo
Lovely poem, Jennifer…I sense a twinge of melancholy, but with a twist of optimism, and a side order of getting better? Am I right?
Warm regards…John H.
Thank you! Sounds pretty accurate, John. I hope you’re well 🙂
Beautiful
Thank you, Adam! So glad to have you on this journey with me! I’ll be checking out your page as well.
Divine writing and photography. ✨Thank you for this share, Jenn. 💛
Thank you dear friend 🧡
You’re very welcome. 💛🌼
Always so romantic. Well written piece Jennifer!
Aww thank you 😊
Lovely piece. And yes, true love remains.
Thank you so much!
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Wow, Jennifer!! This is such an awesome poem! I loved it! So Beautifully penned!!! 😁😁 I loved it when I first read it and Then – I read it slowly out l really fell in love with it. OMG, you need to read these lines slowly out loud to yourself. They come to life in a magical way. Try it and see. Record it for yourself and then listen to it with your eyes closed and you will see that this poem has another life waiting for it to be HEARD and listened to being recited in you voice!!! PLEASE record this for us?? Please??
Just test it out by reading the last lines slowly out load!!!
“and when I leave
I take nothing
but the quiet certainty
that love
real love
never learns how to leave”
What an awesome ending!! Your words have earned an audio presentation!!!
I know it’s not just me that has loved hearing your voice reciting your poems???
Chuck 😁🎁💖💕🌹
Oh goodness, Chuck. You’re too kind. I’ll record it and see if it’s worthy of being on here lol
Yes, PLEASE!!!!! Read it out loud to yourself slowly and with feeling/like a script on stage. That ending just grabs you!! I did a recitation of it myself and got excited imagining it voiced by YOU!!!
Chuck – 😁🎁✨💖💕🌹
Your words are the souls footprint, Jennifer! Whoa! xx
Oh, Cindy, thank you ❤️ xx
Jennifer, so beautifully written, …and the ending , …’real love, …never learns how to leave.’…so true, …and powerful in its message, ….💙
Thank you, Penn. Lovely to see you again 🙂💙
‘Tis so good to be back, …✨💙🤗✨