The Chapter That Needed To End

By Madison Simone

You were my perfect handwriting,

Dancing across my paper.

You were a string of perfect words,

Ones I cried at when read later.

You were a translation of emotions to phrases,

You were the lead inscribing details on multiple pages.

You were a character I wanted to last forever,

Until the pages rejected you and I together.

The forbidden chapter,

 you never stopped bringing me pain, 

Until my pencil stopped moving and the lead forgot your name.

My pages went blank, 

there were no words left to say.

My eraser removed you from my paper, 

removing you from my brain.

The adjectives no longer described you, 

my pencil’s creation.

I had to stop writing to see,

You were merely a figment of my imagination.

By Madison Simone