2014
A day in 2014
Do you remember? I do
They day i met you
You a nerd, reading the dictionary for fun
Me clueless, public schools we used to shun
A Brotherhood, a pact formed strong
I can’t remember what went wrong
A feeling alien to poem or song
We would talk all day long
Mischief and trouble, that’s what we would get into
Adventures and stories, the tales were told as we grew
And things got hard, in my life and yours
School wasn’t fun anymore, all of the classes were bores
I closed-out everyone, sadly, including you
Please don’t take it personally, I was hurting and i’m sure you knew
And our pacts started to rust
Like an old photo album collecting dust
And then I moved, so sudden I know
I remember those tears, begging me not to go
After everyone left, you stayed with me
It was dusk when you arrived, and dawn when you left
When it was all over, my soul had a deep cleft
But still that day we ended smiling in glee
I remember driving away from my house, looking at it fade
Just three years, but it feels like a decade
But even though, that day we were parted
I’m glad that it ended the way it started
Two strangers
In 2017
Not only did you do a great job rhyming but you also changed the tempo and length of the stanzas.
I can really relate to this and feel your emotions through this writing. I really liked this and the words you used to describe.
This is a really cool take on the assignment. I like the way you wrote the piece as a poem instead of prose. You have a very nice use of capitalization to provide emphasis to “Brotherhood”. The way that you used the two dates provides a good sense of closure.