Long Lonely Nights

By Roque Rosales

“LONG LONELY NIGHTS” is a collection of poetry about today’s love.

This is the journey of surviving love, through poetry.

We all have long lonely nights, when we feel empty inside.

Maybe we feel empty, because we left pieces of ourselves, in everyone who used to say, they loved us.

We yearn so badly to be healed, we seem to let anyone new into our lives, way too soon.

We give them everything we have left, hoping they have good intentions. And sometimes, they do not.

And sometimes, the person we wanted to hold on to, was never the person we thought we knew, or needed.

So no matter what the reason is, we must heal. Learn from our experience, and move on.

We must try to find that love, which is coming our way. If we are patient and willing to wait.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664159624

Roque Rosales

Roque Rosales, has had his poems in poetry magazines and poetry book anthologies. He is currently writing love poems in, Allpoetry.com. He is not only a writer of Love Poems, but also One Act Romantic Plays, Ten Minute Plays, Comedy Skits and Silly Puppet Skits. Many have been performed on one stage or another, and has received praise and awards for his work. He has written and acted in plays for NMSU theatre, AMT productions, Dinner Theater Productions, and Murder Ink dinner theatre. He has also acted in movies. His first one is called, “Wrong Is Right” with Sean Connery. And his last movie with Edric Ray is called, “The Lonnie Zamora Story” where he played the lead. He also writes small inspirational love poems every morning for Facebook.com. He is currently living in New Mexico, where he is at work on his next collection of poems for an upcoming book, “LONG LONELY NIGHTS.”

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Copyright © 2021 by Roque Rosales.

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Rev. date: 10/27/2021

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BOOK DEDICATION

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I would like to dedicate this book to:

My daughter Jennifer and my son Jonathan.

Who have given me love and never-ending support.

For this, and so much more, I Thank You.

Love, Dad.

FOREWORD

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If you happen to come across me,

and by chance fall in love with my heart.

I will offer you the pieces of my soul,

that were neglected by others.

Not, to put them back together.

But to align them with the pieces of yours,

that have been long…forgotten.

Roque Rosales

CONTENTS

A Quiet Table

Absent

After the Rain

A Blind Date

A Fictional Memory of You

A Fool’s Wish

A Gentle Person

A Hurt Place

All I Ever Wanted

Aimlessly Spinning

Anything and Everything

A Quiet Loss

Are You Restless?

A Sign of Love

At Night

A Sleepless Night

A Special Thought

Box of Matches

Breaking Up

Chocolates

Damaged

Coming Home

Countdown

Dawn

Falling in Love

Feeling the Blues

Finally

Forever in My Mind

Forever Yours

Fragile Hearts

Gentle Blues

Goodbye

Hard Dicisions

I Can’t Say

If I Had Met You

I Give You My Love

I Have

I Just Can’t

I Have Been

I Imagine

I Know You Care

I’m Not Going Anywhere

I’m Still Waiting

I Need You

I’m Through With Love

I Miss

I Need You the Most

I Never Will Try

In My Dreams

Insomnia

In Twenty Years

I Remember Clearly

I…Remember You

I Should Have Waited

I Thought I was Done

I Still Make You Coffee

It’s Going to Take a Miracle

It’s Hard to Believe

I’ve Been Told

It’s Time to Save Ourselves

I’ve Got A Date With…

Ivory Keys

I Want To

Just A Lie

Lonely Nights

Just Between You and Me

Just Friends

Kodachrome

Less Than Everything

Long Legged Girl

My Biggest Mistake

Long, Long Ago

Lost and Wondering

Make Time Stand Still

My Dream Lover

My Empty Room

My Shirt Looks Good on You

My World

Nothing More

No Longer Platonic

Nothing Matters

No Vacancy

Peace at Midnight

Now Would Be the Time

Once in a Lifetime

One Again

Our First Times

Ours to Share

Patience

Singing the Blues

So Long, Lonely Nights

Santa Fe

She and I

Silence in the Sheen

Sometimes

The Beginning and the End

Sometimes at Night

Still

The First Time I Saw You

The Last Hug

The Moment We Part

The Music in Your Voice

The Past

Too Long

The Sparkle in Your Eye

Touched by Love

Two Kinds of Love

Wait for the Right Person

We Can Find Love Again

We’ll Be Okay

You Make Me

We’ll Be Okay, Won’t We?

When We First Met

Where Were You?

Thank You

A QUIET TABLE

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I booked a table,

for two, last night.

I put on my best cologne,

and dressed, in my finest suit.

I went to meet you there,

a quiet table, by the fire.