Using my Words February 14, 2014 Blogging Challenge

Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.

 At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them. 

I’m using: Crush, Moonlight, Soul, Beach.               

They were submitted by: http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/  

I spent many nights at the beach.

Letting the moonlight drench my soul.

Letting my worries drift away.

Gazing at the stars and letting my mind wander.

I tried so hard, night after night, to get over you.

To forget the crush I had on you. 

To forget the way you made my heart skip beats.

To forget the way you made me smile.

To forget the way your mouth tasted so sweet.

I tried to let the memories melt in the hot summer heat.

They wouldn't, or maybe they couldn't. 

They remain to this day.

All my memories of you.

My memories of us.

Of days spent cuddling on the beach.

Days spent watching waves crash onto the sand.

Days spent falling for you.

Memories so sweet and yet so sour.

Memories of our time together, right down to our last hour.

I try to block it all out.

From our best moments, to our worst.

That moment when you walked away.

Leaving me behind.

That moment when my world turned gray.

That moment when my happiness seemed to turn to dismay.

A permanent dismay.

I am finally better now.

All these months later, I have finally found my smile again. 

I still think of you often. 

I find myself wondering what could have been.

What would have been, had you not left.

Had you not gone on a quest to be a better man.

Had you realized that you were a great man already.

Had you just been satisfied with me. With us.

If only I had been enough.

I wasn't. I'm not.

You're gone. I'm here.

I sit here in the moonlight, letting my soul soak it in.

I find myself wondering where you are. 

What you are doing.

Are you too soaking in the moonlight?

Perhaps you are also on a beach.

Maybe you are even thinking of me.

Do you think of me?

Do you still have memories of us?

Do you even miss me?

Do you ever wonder how I am?

Are you finally a better man?

The man you wanted to be.

Is that now you?

Or you now he?

What about me?

Well, there you go. I hope you enjoyed it. They were fabulous words, and this is what my brain did with them! Now do yourself a favor and wander on over to all the other fabulous posts involved in this writing challenge!

Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

http://BakingInATornado.com                   Baking In A Tornado

http://www.justalittlenutty.com                 Just A Little Nutty

http://batteredhope.blogspot.com             Battered Hope

http://www. JuiceboxConfession.com          Juicebox Confession

www.theblacksheepmom.blogspot.com      Black Sheep Mom

http://stacysewsandschools.wordpress.com   Stacy Sews and Schools

http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/     Confessions of a part time working mom

http://www.eviljoyspeaks.wordpress.com     Evil Joy Speaks

http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com         Spatulas on Parade               

http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com.au      Searching for Sanity

http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/             The Bergham’s Life Chronicles

www.fbxadventures.blogspot.com                      FBX Adventures (In Parenting)

http://www.healingtomato.com                     Healing Tomato

http://dates2diapers2.blogspot.com                Dates 2 Diapers 2

http://followmehome.shellybean.com               Follow me home . . .

www.outmannedmommy.com/                       Outmanned