Love Poem: A Sad Girl's Story
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Written by: Rehnesha Santos

A Sad Girl's Story

I'm still here
Trying to survive
Not letting go
No need to be revived

Not many people understand
Not even my mother
She's the main reason I sleep
With my head under the covers

She doesn't know how it feels
Or how it changes a person
To have someone try to take
Your most prized possession 

She tells me I need to let go
And move on with my life
How can I do that?
I imagine that person every night

Not that many people
Know my story
They don't know where I came from
So they form their own thoughts of me

Sometimes I wish
I wasn't born
Maybe then my heart
Wouldn't be so torn

Maybe I wouldn't think about
My dad leaving my life
Turning away
And not making things right

But he has the audacity
To be mad and upset
I'm so tired of getting my hopes up
It's time for me to forget

He doesn't know how it feels
To be and abandoned child
Left with a single mother
Struggling to get by

But she found a man
One after the other
She finally settled with one
I'm hoping that it's now over

Fussing and fighting
Almost every single day
It's all I ever hear
They're always shouting in each other's face

Maybe I'm just like her
Person after person
Thought I had found him
Thought I was done searching

I was in love
And he was my everything
I thought he felt the same
But it turned out I was his nothing

On and off
I tried to make it work
But he just wasn't ready
He just couldn't let her go

I was heart broken
But I knew it was right
It was time to let go
And move on with my life