When I knew I loved you,
My heart felt secure.
My body could never imagine,
The pain it was to endure.
When I knew I had to let you go,
My heart felt scared.
My body could never imagine,
How much it actually cared.
When I knew I lost,
My heart felt sad.
My body could never imagine.
Just how much we had
Poetry
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Well, doesn’t this poem just hit the reader right in the feels? First off, I love the use of repetition throughout the poem, starting with the phrase “When I knew,” “My heart felt,” and “My heart could never imagine” in the first three lines of the stanzas. As the poem progresses, it is illustrated how the narrator’s feelings become more troubled and fearful, and those specific phrase serve as the perfect leeway to guide the reader through the narrator’s down-spiral. She had to let go of this person that she so loved, so she went from “secure” to “scared” to “sad.” All in all, I adore the straightforward style of the poem because, although the structure is easy, there is so much emotion wound within it. Really, it’s so hard to say goodbye, especially when it’s only when they are truly gone that their absence sinks in and you realize how important they were to you. Well done! Short but nevertheless, effective and gut-wrenching!
thank you so much!!