What It's Like to Wait

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16335
United States
41° 36' 54.5148" N, 80° 8' 34.2888" W

You left without a warning,
you didn't even say goodbye,
and now you're gone forever,
without a reason why.

Was it something I said,
or did, or didn't do?
that called for the punishment,
of me losing you?

Just like that you'd vanished,
as the sun does with the rain,
but then you didn't come back,
leaving me to deal with pain.

They say it's no one's fault,
that there is no place for blame,
but I don't believe a word,
when it all feels like some sick game.

Someone said it was your time,
but I know that it's not true,
something happened on that day,
that changed the world I knew.

I cannot change the past,
what's done will never change.
I only wish for one more chance,
to see your face again.

It is so very hard to face
the world without you there.
I try to go on with my life,
but everything's so cold and bare.

And I know you might not hear me,
but I'll ask you anyways,
Why couldn't you have told me
I'd be missing you these days?

Not a single day goes by,
that you don't cross my mind,
memories and thoughts devoted to you,
and those you've left behind.

I wait for the day I will follow,
I know my time will come,
to take the path that leads to you,
and I'll not look back; I'll run.

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