There is always going to be that one person that you cannot replace. They are truly special. No matter how many times you move on or at least try to they are going to still be there lingering in the back of your mind. This is what this post and poem is all about. That brings me to my first quote of this post by Matsuri Hino who says “No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.” In other words, farewells and goodbyes are the hardest when that person means that much to you.
I have exciting news about the poem I am sharing in this post. I participated in a competition on DUP. I did not win but I was asked to have my poem published in an online magazine. Here is the link to the the December 2024 issue where it was published. ——> (Hypo Frost Magazine). I hope you all enjoy it! I will leave you with one final quote to end this year. “As the old year makes way for the new, remember that you are the author of your own story.” In other words, you write your own story no matter what. I just wanted to say that this will be my last post of 2024. So I wish you all a happy new year.
No One to Replace You
There are the unfinished poems and unread texts.
They become the story of my life when everything
Has loose ends and there is nothing that connects
To my current or next chapter. I am trying to fling
Myself into work and diversions, but nothing could
Ever fill the empty hole like you do. No one can lift
Me up when all I want to do is melt away like wood
Floating down the river. No one understands the drift
And wind I feel in my bones when they are telling me
That I am going in the wrong direction. No one to tell
Me that the irrational thoughts and feelings that I see
Playing in my head are not reality. The truth is I fell
For the potential instead of the guy standing right in
Front of me. I fell for the guy I could see a future with
And who made me feel comfortable living in my skin.
The simple truth is that you really made the wordsmith
In me come alive when I have felt dead for days, months
And years. In every second of every day, you have revived
Something in my soul. Maybe when I can finally confront
The fact that I love you is the day when I said I truly lived.