I finished you in class today
           I cried when I read your last word
Your author so cruelly ended two dreams
    both yours and mine
"Calm down", they said to me
           "It was only a book."
Only a book? I wish it were true
so neither of us would have felt the pain
         of the back cover
                                  closing
and even as I lament my sorrows now to you
      I must also say farewell
to our hours of laughs and tears,
    and while it ended as I feared:
with you gone and me still here
            I must leave
                                  for there are more books to start
and more still
                                                           ­                                                                 *to finish