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Writer's pictureCrystal Borup-Popenoe

Poems: The Way it Once Was

Sharing a few poems with you that I wrote about my past. So much has changed since then, that I often feel like it was another life. Truth that there is light beyond the darkness.


I Can’t Speak


My throat is tight.

It feels like like it is closing.

The pain is unbearable.


I try to speak,

but but nothing comes.

I feel helpless.

I feel like it’s my fault.




Eventually I Leave


I finally get the nerve to tell you,

and you criticize me.


I want to be honest with you,

but for some reason,

you won’t accept all of me.


We fight.

You fall silent for days.


When I try to leave, you love me again.

I’m so confused.

Will this cycle ever end?

Do I stay or go?

Will I ever find someone else?

Will someone ever love me?


Eventually I leave.




That’s How it Goes Sometimes


We were in love.

You were young,

but I was younger.

We thought it was the right thing to do.

But we were fooling ourselves.


I wish I had learned more from our time together.

Instead history repeated.

But that’s how it goes sometimes.




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