Reminiscence

Lines of Life

Do we already know each other?
Are you my soulmate or perhaps just a passing stranger?
Our intersection left a huge imprint on my heart
You struck me as if I would be torn apart
Uttering the words "Hello" as quick as lighting
Yet saying "Goodbye" was like the same thing.

This is a game that destiny plays
Somehow I realized something along the way
That all our paths are connected with a string of fate
And every person you encounter
I hope you'll appreciate.
You were one of the lines I wish I could have forget
But walking out of my life was one that I could never interpret.

This is a poem about lines
Of people you'll meet throughout time.

We all meet different people in our lives.
With them, we felt alive, souls revived.
They may be considered as lines in Geometry.
Who left, who loved and who were not meant to be.
Parallel, Perpendicular and Tangent,
Are we divergent or convergent?

Tangent lines only meet once,
Intersect at one point.
Is this a happenstance?
A meeting filled with such extravagance
but can never happen again.
A person you loved, but still left in the end.

Perpendicular lines intersect at a right angle,
Like our hearts comingled.
Are we lucky? Or is this one time?
Maybe this is the one.
The one who made us believe in forever.
But had hurt us over and over.

Parallel lines. Is this the saddest of all?
Lines that do not intersect.
Like soulmates who were never destined to meet.
Walking on the opposite sides of the ledge.
Never meeting no matter what, no matter how hard they try,
Because they where never meant to be.

The fates are cruel.
They weave our lives together.
Knotted tightly in their thread of threads,
Continued weaving but people are still leaving.
Why would the universe conspire to let us meet?
And yet part ways again in the end.

Are there lines in your life?
A person you loved but still left like a Tangent?
Or perhaps have you finally met your Perpendicular?
But maybe, just maybe.
Parallel is just waiting and yet...
You will never be meeting.

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Hey guys! It's been so long since I last posted something. So this is my first spoken word which I made during our Year 10, English Class. It was published in our school paper and I am so satisfied with the outcome. So that's all!

Have a wonderful week ahead!