My Poems

That Day. . .

By the beach, we listened to the tides,
as you sat by my side against the cold stones ashore.
We lay on the sand and waited for the rise,
the rise of the golden light.

Then, I recalled:
I once stood upon these shores.
I once wanted to explore the doors.
It was a gloomy, hazy, dreary day.
The day the world I knew had drifted away.
And I became the fate, the one I always feared,
the one that I suffered so much with its weight.

From then on,
I've stayed behind,
too afraid to face the unknown.
Too afraid to face the fear again,
that I once was forced to be shown.

But,
It was different the time I met you.
I saw your shadow out at sea,
struggling in the storm, and blinded by the rain.
It was all the same.

Just like that gloomy, hazy, dreary day.
I felt your fear the same as I'd felt mine.
I was scared but more prepared
and determined to overcome my fear,
the fear I've been holding onto
for all these years.
Seeing you struggle the way I did before,
I couldn't just let you drift away from this world.

Surging out with my craft,
and up to your shadow.
I gazed upon your figure,
So helpless, yet so powerful.

As I gave you my paddle, your eyes met mine
and I saw the fear slowly drain from your eyes.
Then, I heaved your weight onto mine,
the weight that came from all your whines.
When I brought you back to this coastline,
I realized that something was different this time.

Before, when I had almost died
I came out of it all
Caught up in my close call
But when you came out
you wagged your tail about
because you knew
that the past is not what it's all about.

And after it all,
I know now
that it's not how you fell
it's how you dealt with it all.

I wrote this based on the overall structure of a poem called "Wrist-wrestling Father". It was an assignment 2 years ago to create your own version of a poem my teacher gave me, which I ended up creating a whole new story out of. :3