The Days That She Comes By: A Thirty-Three Poem Collection In Four Parts Based upon the Grief of Losing Someone in a Romantic Relationship

By Sean Hudson

The Days That She Comes By is a journey through the mind and heart of a young man who finds himself in the middle of a complicated, over boundary line professional relationship with a Social Worker who is assigned to help him in his recovery toward living an independent life without the need for her help on a twice weekly basis. Sooner than later, he develops romantic feelings for this young woman and finds himself in a quandary about whether he should reveal this to her or not. A “damned if he does or a damned if he doesn’t” situation. He delays this confession to her by writing and giving to her a song lyric, which she is grateful for, called “The Days That She Comes By.” After two months, when he is finally ready to reveal his feelings for her, he resigns himself to have a “hope this will be okay” attitude. Despite the great turmoil he was in at this time and she, after hearing his confession and conferring with her supervisor, now comes back with a set of ground rules that he must abide by if she is to continue to be his Social Worker, including not saying or doing anything that might make her feel uncomfortable in any way. This book is a stream of consciousness monologue about the inner workings of a young man’s mind and heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781645315681

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The Days That She Comes By

A Thirty-Three Poem Collection In Four Parts Based upon the Grief of Losing Someone in a Romantic Relationship

Sean Hudson

Copyright © 2019 Sean Hudson

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2019

ISBN 978-1-64531-567-4 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64531-568-1 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

The Days That She Comes By

There Are Trees That Will Not Bend

Good-bye Poem

For the Time She Is Mine

The Mysterious Shadow Girl

When the Comet Returns

What I Long to Do

Larceny for Elephants

Valentine’s Day

It’s Impossible to Say

Lonely Weekend Blues

Lonesome Avenue

Valentine’s Day in the Summer

Ear to the Ground

Will I Be Ready?

Lion in His Lair

Another Spring

The Telephone Blues

Frozen in My Mind

The Chalice

I Thought I’d Hear from You?

The Reunion

Now and Then

Ocean of Tears

New Again

The Fall

The Meeting

The Dream

The Answer Is Your Fate

Love Letter to Myself

The Right Thing

Answers That I Seek

The Last Conversation

Part One

The Days That She Comes By

Verse 1. Though I may be unsure,

I know what is the score,

So I thought I’d write her a letter,

To tell her I feel better,

On the days that she comes by.

Verse 2. There’s no revolving door,

She hasn’t been here before,

And as time goes by