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.