I wonder if he was real.
"I like you."
He told me this with what I hope was genuine compassion.
He said his parents knew about me.
He was worried about our age gap.
The fact he was 17 and I was 15.
He told me he would protect me.
He'd never hurt me.
That what others told me about him just wasn't the truth.
He had changed.
He was no longer afraid of commitment.
He told me I was pretty.
That he wanted to be with me and me alone.
Then,
just as fast as it began,
it was already the end.
He appeared in my life,
made a lasting impression,
and left.
Like I never even mattered to him.
Like I was immensely replaceable.
Like I wasn't even real.
I wonder if he was real.
About this poem
This poem is a representation of exactly what I was feeling at a time in adolescence. My first love.
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Written on April 16, 2022
Submitted by zobank75 on April 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABXX BBXXX BXXXX XAXXXC C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 157 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 6, 1 |
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