I thought i'd feel happy
I'd get to see you again
ten months of waiting
but I feel nothing
I'm glad to see nothing has changed

I thought i'd feel hatred
mad that you left the way you did
ten months of anticipation
but i feel nothing
I'm glad to see nothing has changed

I thought i'd feel different
in some weird way
ten months of hoping
but i feel nothing
I'm glad to see nothing has changed

I thought you'd feel happy
you'd get to see me again
ten months away
but you feel nothing
i'm glad to see nothing has changed

I thought you'd feel hatred
the way i treated you when i left
ten months of remanicing
but you feel nothing
i'm glad to see nothing has changed

I thought you'd feel different
for some odd reason
ten months to think things through
but you feel nothing
I'm glad to see nothing has changed

A brother and sister
So close yet so distant
ten months as far away as can be
but we feel nothing
It's kind of sad that nothing has changed

Very effective use of repetition and refrain in this one, Kim. A close unity of structure is achieved thereby, which has the effect of drawing the reader in close. Very absorbing! And it's a nice twist at the end, when we find out the relationship is between brother and sister; one automatically assumes at the beginning the relationship is between lovers.

I think this is my favorite of your poems which I have seen thus far. I really like it, and best of all I like the unifying repetition and the close structure which is achieved thereby, a tightly woven web of words.

I hope my friend Kevin will come online now as the weekend approaches; I'd like for him to see this one. I know he'd like it as I do (and he writes such good and encouraging replies, too, better and more helpful than mine).

Be encouraged! I see considerable growth in you, poem to poem. It's exciting to make such progress.

Respect and Solidarity!

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wow thank you greatly

That Is a Very Good Poem. Thanks!