Based on a book. Can you guess which one?
You've been looking for me by the garden
As if the flowers will tell you where I went
Id say I'm sorry but then you'll really know
About my body in the lake far from home
You've been looking for me by where we started
At the bell tower looking over the world
You were going to do what I planned too
But I saved you so I could fall first
We could be like the star crossed lovers:
I'll be your Romeo and you'll be my Juliet
I wish that I could save you
But I'll be dead before I can
Floating in the water with your fingers wrapped around my hand
The water froze with me inside it
I was trapped in a memory,
Trapped in the act,
I hope you won't find me
I'm sorry I made you wonder where I am
I'm sorry that you'll see me like this:
Eyes wide open begging you to understand
Follow the map to every place I've been
The spray painted buildings all a victim to my hands
My shoes added to the collection on the power line
My body's cold but I'll be alright
I'm sorry for doing the same as you were going to do that night
And For sending you on a journey to where I stole my life
But I couldn't stand to see your face as I told you I've given up my fight
I couldn't accept the fact that you cared
I felt invincible too
Just like you did
The wind in our hair,
Toes in the air,
Our feet teeter on an unsteady mind
Because The building will never move
I was going to plummet to the ground
But I stopped because I couldn't let you
I was going to hold your hand as we fell now
But it was all happening so soon
Taking your step with a stranger:
It seems like a fairytale
After all they all started so dark
Maybe our story wasn't so off
But can this just stay between you and me?
If you don't mind the air already knowing all my secrets
The water was serine and cold
My hair wasn't tossing and turning like it did when we had the windows down
I tied the weight around my ankle,
Let it pull me to the ground,
So I could understand how it was for you
Having me around
You knew where I was,
Where I went,
But you still searched
And on the depressing journey you went
Did you pause by the water,
Imagined you saw my face?
Did you skim your fingertips along the plastic waste
Realize it was me in this lake
You'll see me at the edge,
My words written where your feet once laid
I hoped that you wouldn't have came back here
But I decided to write you just in case
I don't want to romanticize my death
I don't want you to always see me
But by taking my breath I realized that's when I could finally breathe
I wish you didn't understand me
( hint hint it was All The Bright Places)
YOU ARE READING
Another poem book because I have learned how to write not as shitty poems
PoetryPoems, some short stories, and submissions for contests.