POEM STARTER
"“What did you do?”
Write a poem that incorporates this question three times.
Choose any theme you’d like, as long as you use repetition to create an interesting effect.
mandela effect of my existence
what did you do?
how did you react
when I stopped replying out of the blue?
were you concerned at all,
did you think anything was wrong?
you had to have noticed.
I'm not one
to grow distant.
you're the first person
that made me feel
like I had to.
what did you do?
how many times
did you miss me,
if any at all?
did you ever ask
anyone else
why I did it?
really, what did you do?
what could you have done
when I left?
I see no evidence
that I ever meant anything.
you could make me believe
we had never
opened our hearts to each other,
that we'd never spent
day after day
talking to each other,
that you never told me
I was the only one you could trust.
and yet here we are.
I've left your life,
and you've rubbed out
all the footsteps I took,
because you did nothing.
you didn't even try.