11 Lines From Love Letters Or Suicide Notes Poem by Ellis Slater

11 Lines From Love Letters Or Suicide Notes

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1. It's all going to be okay, okay?
2. Look on the bright side, now we can both be happy!
3. Sometimes I would look at you from a distance, far enough away so you would not see me, and wonder what you were thinking of me. Wonder if I could ever tell you how I really felt.
4. I thought you would have picked up on this a little sooner, if I am being honest.
5. Ever since I was a little, I have always been told that I wear my heart on my sleeve. So I don't know how you didn't see this coming. I don't know how I am going to forgive you for putting me through this whirlwind of emotions.
6. Don't worry, I know writing a letter is the coward's way out. But for now, I think I am fine with being a coward.
7. I am really sorry to do this to you.
8. One day, I hope you can forgive me for feeling this way.
9. I keep imagining you wearing one of my hoodies.
10. The reason I haven't been getting much sleep is that lately, I have been having this recurring dream. You and I are on a boat in calm waters sitting at a table playing cards. Then out of nowhere, a huge storm comes with gigantic waves licking both sides of our small day boat. "The waves are too much, " you yell at me, for the sound of wind and crashing waves drowns out all sound. One last time you shouted "Goodbye." at me as you were swept up with the water and pulled out to sea. The ocean, however, left me on the boat surrounded by all of our memories. I tried sending out an SOS, but the clouds were too thick. Every time I sleep, I have that dream. I try to change the ending, but it never works out. Why would I want to go back to a place where one of the worst possible things that can happen, happens? How do we forgive ourselves for all of the times we have not attempted change?
11. No matter what is to come, just know that I love you.

Monday, September 13, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: suicide,epic,spoken word
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This is my own version of Doc Luben's '14 Lines from Love Letters or Su! cide Notes.' The poem itself is mine but the idea is Doc Luben's.
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