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

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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.

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