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POEM STARTER
'I wish I had never let go.'
Using this as the opening line, create an emotional poem focusing on how your character feels and what has led them to this point.
Writings
I wish I had never let go of the
childhood with nonexistent worrying.
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Standing alone in the middle of the room,
can they tell I’m about ready to jump?
I’ve gone in and out of these little mindsets,
and I’m starting to wonder if I’m a grump.
Standing, walking,
laughing, talking,
every single action
brings an unsteady heartbeat.
It just hurts.
I wish I never had to let go of my childhoo...
I wish I never had to let go of times
When summer seemed to go on forever
Where the the days we’re filled
Running through the fields
Playing dolls in the grass
And building dams in the streams
The days where
mud on my face
grass between bare toes
Dirt under my finger nails
And ants cradled in my hands
Was all my daily life
When a smile on my face was the default
the world felt welcoming
And th...
I wish I had never let go.
Everything about you.
But mostly the idea of what we could be.
I held onto it for a long time.
I may have loved you.
I know now that you never felt the same way,
But what I regret the most is thinking you might.
Letting go and realizing tore me apart.
You were the only one I could truly image being mine.
Now looking back,
I wish I had never let go of that hope....
I wish i had never let go…
I didn’t mean to start a war in my mind—
I just wanted someone to like me;
I just want to like myself.
I thought maybe the pain would be worth it; that through the despair and aching
I would come to find love.
But is love ever developed through pain?
I think it can be discovered…right?
I just feel lost—
If only someone could find me....
I wish I had never let go
those childish drawings
treasure hunts, scrapbooking
the random video projects
I just felt proud I could call it mine
young me had no worries
young me smiled so wide
Then came what I wished was my happy days
Lived the rest of my life
head down, no noise, no sound
stopped trying for fear of rejection
and humiliation, embarrassment
fear gripped my present
because of thos...
I wish I had never let go.
Of the hope that burnt out in my heart.
The hope that we could be.
Maybe I was just stupid.
Maybe it was never even a possibility.
But I swear I saw the small spark in your eyes that had matched my blazing flame.
That flame is now flickered out, with nothing to kindle the burn.
It left my heart in ashes, and I wonder if maybe you still hold your spark.
Perhaps yo...
I wish I had never let go
I wish I had never let my old self slip out of my fingertips
I never knew losing yourself could be so easy
Could happen so fast
I have to try to convince myself that this new version of me will be better
That I’m healing
Becoming a new person
A better person
And I do try
I try and be the person who
“Always smiles” like I used to be
But no matter what I do
No mat...
“i wish i had never let go”
is that what you want us to say?
“come back, i need you”
but that isn’t our way
at coups, oh, how we excel
stage one whenever we get bored
and the consequences they reap?
a luxury we will never afford
it’s always for a reason, though
or at least so we tell ourselves
because what’s another lie
to stack up on the shelves?
of course, we’re never the villains
good girls ...
I wish I had never let go.
I’ve forgotten the way
The skin on your fingers felt.
I used to think of them
As velvet, I know that,
Just like the way you spoke.
But, it was all for not.
Your eyes had strayed,
Wistful for what lay
Across the other ridge.
Your hand slipped from mine.
Watching you walk away, smiling,
Shattered my heart
I went to walk after you, but
I couldn’t break my feet
From the g...
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