January 22, 2016

Stories

We were made of stories 
we wouldn't tell anybody else.
The history books didn't have 
Our names written in them.
But we were hoping 
to be remembered by people 
that don't even know we exist.
But, we do exist.
We are a breathing story line 
with an unlikely plot twist;
we've given up the moment
we knew we were going well.
We were getting too strong
that nobody could break us,
but us.
So, we did.
We had plenty of chances
as if they were just dust
in our shelves 
of books that were just waiting
to be read, to be held,
to be loved again.
We had an open ending.
One which everybody else
keeps on determining
how it should go,
how it should turn out to be
the best story ever told.
But, no.
And don't tell me that I didn't try.
Because, I've been up for it
every single time. 
And I still don't know why
we've never spoken our apologies.
Or maybe we did 
and I just didn't care.
Because I saw the look in your eyes
and, I swear
they were seeing me but
were seeking something else.
And I never said I'd give up.
I'd never risk losing us. 
But, isn't it that some promises
were made to be broken?
No, it's not just that.
Some things were made to be broken.
Some people were made to be broken,
even the ones we thought would make it.

Let's go back to the beginning,
how I said that we were made of
stories we wouldn't tell anybody else.
But, since I'm telling the truth,
we were made of stories
we were afraid they'd find out.
And, no, the history books didn't
have our names written in them
because we didn't make it.
Isn't it they only sell the 
ones who've succeeded?

Let's go back to our ending,
how I realized that we are no longer
made of untold stories.
We are now made of memories
kept on boxes,
of poems we can no longer 
tell each other
and the rest,
I guess,
that I 
no longer want to remember.