The Letter Poem by Travis Johnson

Wakin up out of sleep
Felt a change in the weather
Turned over to see the time
On the table is a letter
Thinkin what is this
While the envelope I opened
Tryna read it out loud
Same time tryna stay focus
The words on the paper
Cut me so deep
So I had to start over
To make sure it was addressed to me
The things she said
Was, this was the best time she ever had
And the first time in her life
She found a guy that made her glad
But the worst thing about it
She said she don’t think she could love me
And I loved her with all my heart
Jus to see her walk away from me
Tryna keep up with the pages
Got me really hurt
It seems I was on cloud 9
Now all the way down in the dirt
I'm walkin around in a circle
Thought I found true love
At the end it's jus me
Theres' no more of us
Now I'm back where I started
With no girl next to me
So I close the curtains in the house
Don’t want people to see the hurt she caused to me
Stayin in the bed
That’s where I stayed all day
Now I closed my eyes
With a lot of things on my brain
I'm lookin all around
I see that I'm by myself
So I take a jar out the kitchen
To place my love on a shelf…