POEM STARTER

Submitted by TheQuillPen

Write a poem about giving up.

It doesn’t have to be negative, it can be about giving up something or someone that’s been holding you back.

First Love

“If you love something, set it free”

I never understood that

until you.


From the moment I met you,

you felt familiar

like I’d known you before.

Even as strangers,

you lit something in me

so pure

so rare

I just knew—you’d be everything.


You loved me gently.

You saw me,

held space for me,

gave me light

when I didn’t even know

there was any left in me.


You were my first love,

but more than that

you were my person,

my peace,

my safe place

in a loud world.


Letting you go

broke something in me

but I wasn’t a kid anymore.

I couldn’t hold on

just to keep you close.

I had to love you enough

to want your freedom,

even if it meant losing your presence.


I would’ve moved heaven and earth

to keep us,

but instead

I set you free.


Our love didn’t last—

but the memories,

the way you shaped me,

those stay.

They always will.


And though I may never say it

I love you.

Quietly.

still.

Forever.

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