Out of all the forms of literature you can write or read about-poetry has always been my worst. Why can’t it always rhyme and be as simple as “Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, and so are you?” Why is it alway so depressing? So when I began my new creative writing class, I was very skeptical about beginning with my worst nightmare for writing. My first assignment was to write just five poems about anything I can think of. Well, being the “smart” student I am, I enlisted in some help of writing these poems with a poem generator. Sure I only had to fill in some blanks here and there, but I was still writing them right? I already had four okay poem finished, each better than the last since I started getting the hang of it. But I was stumped on my final one. I had one generic topic left-friends. Each example I read was about best friends. I started to get choked up, thinking back to a big ongoing fight I have had with my best friend. So, using up all my salty tears and finger strength, this is what I came up with:
She is making music videos with off-tune singing
She is crashing shopping carts in the grocery store
She is a summer stroll on the beach
She is the photographer of our adventures
She is a convertible with the top down
She is a silver bracelet with half-a-heart
She is my partner in crime
She is the sister I never had
She is an irreplaceable person
She used to be my best friend.
Writing this poem made me cry
She truly means that much to me
I sent it her on a whim-
Hoping for something, anything
She called me right away, saying how much she missed me
She cried too, reading this thing
Maybe this poem can be the glue to seal the cracks,
Something that will help us move on from the past
It forever will be changed, you can’t mess with time
But for now, our time can be mine
