How cool is that I’m able to share another bonus poem for the Mental Health Awareness Poetry Initiative?! This is another poem I wrote after a couple of weeks of reflecting on some of my friendships, and the fact that many people that I would’ve considered friends are not longer on my radar. This is true for a lot of people, and that was an interesting idea to explore for me because friendships are only as strong as *both* people make it, and it doesn’t always go both ways, which is what this piece explores from one side of the “tracks,” so to speak. It words with a ton of prompts, but I wrote this during Week 4, and so I felt like it could easily fit into the experiences of dependency and change, though it could really fit with another three or four prompts from the month too. Anyway, without further adieu – here’s another bonus poem:
What do you do when your best friend dies
But doesn’t really die
They just leave without saying good-bye
And they never look back after they move on
They’re just gone, going, gone
So your list of question goes on and on
Like alarms in your head
Popping up in the car or in bed
Just continuously asking why they left you behind
And there’s no way that you can describe
The feeling of loss
Or your broken heart
It’s just as painful as when someone does die
Only when someone dies you know that that’s just life
Unlike when someone just chooses to walk away
With nothing they feel that they need to say
As if your time with was just all part of a game
You feel like you’ve been deceived
You feel like a fool because you believed
That this person you thought you knew
Actually, really, honestly cared for you
You were there for each other through and through
What made them walk out and close the door
What in the hell did they do that for
This is the worst kind of hurt
That I’m not sure you’re really worth
Since I can see you standing right there
And you won’t look at me, so all I can do is stare
The life of our friendship dissipates
I want to cry out but I hesitate
To even demonstrate
The kind of love and hate
That I can no longer explain
I guess this just you letting go
At least now I know
So I can keep walking this road alone
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