I like the duality of the ending. Did you intend that the speaker and lover were never the same from the beginning and thus the relationship was doomed? Or did you mean that they were never the same after? If so, it would seem to me the speaker is hopeless. But yet... there's the line "we thought had been the end". Is this poem sneakily hopeful?

Still perplexed by the tone then. Is the speaker ultimately still hopeful? Or is the speaker resolving to give up?

With the world becoming a smaller place and people in cross-continent relationships this poem is ever more relative to many people, I like how the tone is hopeful and how that after being reunited (in some aspects more than one) the subjects recognize that they aren't the same - that the time apart has changed them individually and yet even though they are different people and have changed there are also things that have stayed the same (the flip side of the coin)

Change can be frightening sometimes, sometimes it can be uncomfortable, but sometimes it can be ok and even exciting to rediscover someone :)

Anyways enough of my rambling.

Great write!

Ben

Hi, I really liked this. The layout and the content were fab and the piece itself was rather relatable to many of us I guess. I really like how you portrayed love as a rollercoaster, it is isn't it??
The title made me instantly think "well no one is the same and if we were the world would be so boring" but for two people to realise they don't actually have anything in common is horrible and I guess we have all been there and if not we most certainly will at some point in our lives.

1/ When we start anything new it always seems exciting whether it be a new hobby, a new relationship or getting a new house or something but we so take cautions because anything could happen; good or bad.

2/ Once the honeymooning as worn off we do find faults/flaws in the people we love and we seem to pick on those (so to speak) rather than looking at the best in them and how they made us originally feel. Things may come to light that you didn't know about each other to begin with which makes you feel much more different than you actually are but you stick it out because you think it's worth fighting for though nowadays many of us don't because it's too much for us. The ride is anything you make it in my opinion.

3/ This is such a sad but beautifully done ending. I think with most relationships people speculate things which then get twisted and turned and can end even the best of us. Things are said and done on the spur of the moment but when our fights gone things end and because this person was special to us we will always wonder if they're ok.

This is brilliant,
Em