POEM STARTER
Write a romantic poem that could be sung as a song.
Think of the rhyme schemes and structures common in songs.
Maybe I’m Crazy
Maybe I’m crazy, but for more than a moment I imagined we could be together
Maybe I’m crazy, but I imagined just being by your side forever
Maybe I’m crazy, but there are countless times I imagined running to you through stormy weather
Maybe I’m crazy, but I’ve already imagined giving you this in a handmade letter
And maybe I’m crazy, but everyone’s crazy, is it bad that my crazy means crazy for you?
These creatures called „Doubt” crawl into my cranium, now I’m crazy and craving the truth
Often times thinking about you makes me feel blue, but I’m crazy, so I see a beautiful hue
It looks like I’m crazy, so crazy, SO crazy, so please hold my hand and let’s tighten the screws
It’s crazy, but I know you’ll have to be crazy - at least, for me - to discover my love left by
clues
I wonder if you know you drive me crazy - or if you even care
That’d be careless - that effect you have, but I can’t blame you, that wouldn’t be fair
Well - it’s not like I’ve ever been able to fault you, it’s crazy, I’m aware
My awareness slips away when I’m with you, I’m more focused on taking in all your beauty without making it look like a stare
I know I’d get lost in your eyes, if it weren’t for the river that flows in the form of your hair
Do I seem obsessive or crazy? Please, no, I fear the thought of making you scared
That’s why I don’t talk to you nearly as much as I want, as if for abandonment, I’m prepared
And maybe I’m crazy, but I’m overjoyed with all your visits to my dreams
Hey - I guess that makes you the girl of my dreams, whatever that means
You know what’s crazy? I know for a fact you don’t feel the same way about me
And yet, crazy enough, I pursue these delusions, I make my heart bleed
It’s crazy how, because of you, my own heart is my enemy
I’m cursed with a critical condition that corrupts my memories
These crazy trick-memories make me think that we have chemistry
Now I’m constantly confined in my psyche, like I’ve been convicted of felony
Converted from calculating to out of control, I’m spiraling - it’s like you’re testing me
I’m indecisive, I can’t decide if I want you or need you - crazy, I know
Oh - and I promise you I’m not putting on this ‘crazy’ for show
I just write out my thoughts, insert ‘crazy’, it flows
So my thoughts must be crazy, it hurts to disclose
I expose all this crazy, yet the burden, it grows
Like a rose, answers are thorns, so it hurts to get hold
And although I don’t dare approach, the unknown remains known
And this hole in my soul simply grows
I can groan or moan, but I know I’ll explode
On my own, all alone, heart long gone, so no home
Man this trope is so old, that it’s jokes
It makes me hope to go comatose
Or to throw all my bones in the road
Hold breath, decompose, let go,
Hold Death, get close
Hole left, dead zone
Maybe I’m crazy - hopelessly in love
With you, my darling, the one I’m dreaming of
Be crazy with me, let us be us
And not worry what others may claim we’ve become
Let them say we’re crazy, let them speak
Till they learn, that up on cloud 9, their words will never reach
Through highs, through lows, we’ll stand strong
Together we’ll write a love song
We can be the one we both count on
For, in each other’s arms, we both belong
Together, forever, we’ll sing our love song
So maybe we’ll feel comfort in each other’s warmth
Or maybe, just maybe, I’m crazy after all.