I'm not sure of the author of this poem and, to be honest I'm not even sure that is the title. It is a love poem someone sent me back in 1976 so it's been around since then at least. If anyone can help I'd be very thankful.

V/R- Joe DiSalvo, Fayetteville NC

-- Joe DiSalvo (JDisalvojr@aol.com), November 15, 1999

Answers

this one ? . A Part of You, A Part of Me by Larry S. Chengges

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Every moment that we are together, I am learning something and that knowledge becomes a permanent part of me. Everything we share and communicate becomes a permanent part of my growth process. Though my feelings will be different a year from now, or ten years from now, part of the difference is you.

Because of you, I am a different person, and the person I will grow to become, with or without you by my side, will have gotten there partly because of you. If you were not in my life right now, I could not be who I am right now. Nor would I be growing in exactly the same way.

Much of what I grow toward and change within myself, has to do with what I respond to in you, what I learn from you, what I understand about myself through you, and what I learn about my feelings in the dynamics of our relationship. I do not worry about our future together, since we have already touched each other and affected each others lives on so many levels that we can never be totally removed from each others thoughts.

A part of me will always be you, and a part of you will always be me. That much is certain, no matter what else happens.

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), November 16, 1999.