Not Mine To Give It To Poem by Lydia Shivley

Not Mine To Give It To



Here you go. I made it just for you! I made a ruff draft, second copy, it's spell checked and with correct grammar too. Signed, dated, and perfectly sealed in the envelope. It's a love letter. Well actually it's a love poem. I came up with it one day during class, when I couldn't keep my mind on nothing else but you. I worked hard on it. Harder than I would I work on my favorite subject in school. I hope you like it.

...No wait. On second thought, I'm sorry for giving it to you. Let me have it back, and I'll get rid of it. I don't care how, I'll feed it to my gerbil and let her tare it to shreds to use as her bedding. Or through it in the fire in the fire place to roast one last marshmallow with the small fire it fed. But I can't let you have it.

Not that I don't want you to have it, but... you're not mine to give it to. You belong to someone else who is in every way better, smarter, and prettier than I am. Besides this letter is probably nothing compared to what she has to give you. So it would be nothing more than a paper with scribbles on it and in the trash it'll go, before you even finish it. It would bore you to death and I'm sure it wasn't worth putting your video game on pause.

Those words aren't supposed to come from me. I'm nothing more than a friend. Well... I'm supposed to be nothing but that. I would be... if I hadn't been so close to being something more to you than that. If you didn't give me the slightest chance, of thinking I could be. No, I'm not it's your fault, it's no ones... I don't think. Well anyway to avoid further trouble, or heart pulling tension, let me have it back, and just forget I let you know it existed.

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