Nothing Crushes Us Poem by Timothy Long

These words, once muttered and said until they were dead, the loneliest of alone the two were, a world of their own was created from the minds of a young girl and boy, he is the artist, she the writer, all that was once again said was keep your mind wide open, those words in depth made the boy see the one with knowledge and power was he, the bullying and drama from school faded away as the problems became the monsters and foes alike that fell defeated to the king and queen known as he and she, the darkness they held was expelled, the way in and out in which they went about was a magical rope known as their slope, their first friends in each other as their family's were mean as they were green, pushed towards each other as others proclaimed weird and weirder, the boy, the loner of the big family had all the responsibility's and chores his siblings used him for, although both ignored, the girl, dramatic imaginative colorful girl could make no friends so she moved here and met the boy which both secretly enjoyed, her parents were around and nice but to busy to see the hurt of she, both alike but different as well, they would race in play in their magical fort in the woods all day, blonde met brown, brown and blue, best friends they became as secret love was proclaimed in the rain with a insightful look and smiling wave goodbye, the memory haunted him as if a reminding failure to always stay but never say curse or nightmare, she never stopped loving nor caring about the boy who in her world was the greatest and purest joy as he became it, he got a call from another he loved and went for and with her blind to his true lover but regret rings true, he left gazing at her house in a feeling not known while she awoke all alone as it shone so she left for the rope all alone, now as the night before it rained very hard with mud and dirt clicking together in the roaring creek with sharp rocks to kill, for life was her thrill, something she sensed was wrong but being a mere child she shrugged it off, she ran and ran to the rope to swing across with hope and skittering nerving fear but it snapped and she dropped, although she hit her head and drowned, in the time left she had time slowed and down as if frozen for life to flash through her eyes, wouldn't change a thing as she loved and didn't lose, the only regret was him not knowing of her love then it all went black but she did it with a smile and a scream that was forever unheard, as if complying the air to say i love you, he heard when he came back, the guilt was crushing as the loss was in death and life but to him all the same, back to his loner days he repressed and he decided even though depressed to use her ideas and imagination to continue in life in sadness yes, suicidal no, he changed for the better because of his friend, nothing crushed him as he kept his mind wide open to a whole new world... his world full of her and his love forever in shambles that he set fit, all he remembered was nothing crushes us, she smiled from heaven and looked out as she knew he would be okay and live all the way, all because they kept their mind wide open, they were who they were, not who their parents are and were, in the end love each other they always will and did, when even he was older, the feelings never swayed nor did they ever dissaper, the guilt of her passing still haunted him as the grief passed by him but not her soul, because even years down the line he's still gonna be that kid who wants his dead friend back, never could he love another like his love for her, his leisure was down but his spirit like his mind was sky high.