Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Submitted by Freddie
Life Without You
Write a poem or short story about what life would be like without the person you care about the most.
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We all sit together outside after school, waiting for our rides to come. You and I are drawing in my sketchbook. Your sister is laughing with her best friend. Glasses looks at us from behind her phone.
“Oh, yeah, about you leaving—“
I bolt up, pencil dropping on the side walk. I turn to you, a fire of betrayal burning in my eyes. “You’re leaving?”
You look at me with an apologetic face. Your si...
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**Empty spaces where your laughter once echoed,**
**Silence heavy as winter's first snow.**
**Days stretch long, colorless and cold,**
**Like a story with pages untold.**
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**I reach for memories, fading wisps of you,**
**Trying to fill the void that remains.**
**But life without you is a half-finished painting,**
**A song without its refrain.**
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**Yet somehow, the world keeps tur...
Someone mentions your name and for a split second you’re real again
And I think to myself that if I could just talk about you
Hear about you until the end of my days
Then maybe that would calm down my grief
Calm down my sorrow
Unfortunately it never is enough
It will never be enough to fill the gap that you left in me
I can only hope that someday
I’ll be able to talk about you without fe...
The prompt is “life without you”
But to describe what it’d be like without you
I have to describe how it is with you
It’s like a hot day and you’re the sunshine
It’s like sorrow but you’re the relief
It’s like drawings but you’re the color
You’re the thing that makes things good
The smile on someone’s face
The warmth from the sun
The comfort movie
But… you’re also the thing
That makes things...
If you left
Your pain we hold together wouldn’t leave with you
Id never drop the burdens we share instead I’d carry them alone
My pain I share with you would fall back to its place
Without you I’d suffocate
I’d be swallowed by the struggles
My love for you with no where to go would become steal
It’d form chains
I’d be held captive by those chains of grief
for eternity
You’d make a sound
You’d...
Dear Julia,
I know you’re probably seeing this, and stuffing it into a place you never have to read it again, but I just need you to know these four things. Trust me, I realize it may sound…weird…and totally unlike me. But people do odd things for good reasons sometimes.
_The sun doesn’t shine_
_though it beams through_
_my window everyday,_
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_I no longer see colors in all_
_their wonderous g...
Life without you, what’s that?
It feels like so long ago we met
Was there a time we were strangers?
I don’t remember a world with no you
How and where did we meet?
I feel that I just woke up with you one day
I’m supposed to try to imagine it
A life where there is no you
I keep trying and I really can’t do it
You are permanently etched in my life
Me without you is no one at all
Since I’ve ...
I won’t sit here and reiterate shit you already know.
See, I don’t know if you’re struggling because you’re not around.
Tears fall in disdain, manifestation of wicked thoughts that I try to reframe.
Enduring the pain.
Crying hysterically trying to refrain.
From teetering on the edge of being level headed or insane.
Nothing is working not even the bumps of cocaine.
Twelve gauge and the couch pillo...
I lay back and try to forget
That you ever even liked me
We were once friends
But it feels like a lifetime ago
Since you have spoken to me
You proposed when we were twelve
It was all fun and games
Then on my fifteenth birthday
You took my ring
When I wasn’t looking
I turned around to see
You on one knee
And we laughed
Our friend wedded us
In the school changing room
You were my reason to keep...
It’s like pulling the air from my lungs,
You took from me.
Brought my heart down a few rungs,
I hope you can see.
Like ripping the hope from under my breast,
You made me a ghost.
All I can do now with this body is rest,
Because you are its host.
Like pulling open my eyelids and not seeing you,
My side now empty,
Hating that your absence is what’s true,
Because that’s me to a tee.
I overthink wh...