POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
While chasing your ghost, I became one myself.
Obsession and Loss.
I cling onto the idea of someone harder than I cling to the actual person.
Please don't leave me.
I've put you on too high of a pedestal, I don't want to watch you fall.
Obsess, Overthink, Cry, Repeat.
I am not my own person.
I'm you. I'm my friends. I'm everyone around me.
If you leave, I'm stuck with reminders of you in how I act.
I'll change. I'll be what you want me to be.
I can be whoever you see me as.
Just please don't leave.
I'll put on the makeup. I'll lose the weight. I'll wear the pretty dresses.
Just stay.
Don't.. leave.
Please.
I can't bear your absence.
Not when your hoodie sits in my bed every night.
Not when you linger in my dreams, telling me things I could only wish to hear.
Why am I like this?
Why can't I change?