To Repeat or Not Repeat

Lover

You’re not here anymore
You’re not here when I wake-up in the morning
You’re not here when I go to sleep at night
You’re not here to talk to, about my day, about my life
I loved you with all my heart but you tore it apart
You said good-by and I don’t know why
And all I’m left with is bittersweet memories of a time gone-by

I wrote this poem several years ago. I showed it to a few people and some have suggested that I not repeat so much (the first three words in the first four lines.) I seem to like it the way it is because that is the way it came out of me. Here's what it looks like without repeating those three words.

Lover

You’re not here anymore
when I wake-up in the morning
when I go to sleep at night
to talk to, about my day, about my life
I loved you with all my heart but you tore it apart
You said good-by and I don’t know why
And all I’m left with is bittersweet memories of a time gone-by

So, what's the verdit? Repeat or not repeat that is the question. I do have to confess, now that I see it on the page I like it that way also. What's your opinion?

A Blank Page

When a page is blank it has so much potential. The world is yours to create. Creativity on the page is as strong as your imagination. Imagination can paint the brightest star in the midnight sky, the best-brewed cup of coffee your taste buds have ever had the pleaser of tasting. Pictures that you create in your mind can be so vivid they can jump off of the page. You can be thought provoking, have an affair without leaving your chair; become a voyeur in the life you have created. Watch as the story unfolds and dances in front of your eyes, so real you want to reach out. Worlds that you create and the people in them can have it all, lose it all, do it all, the possibilities are endless. All you need is your imagination a keyboard or pen/pencil and a blank page.