I thought that the end would be poetic,
like our favorite novels that end so cleanly.
I thought it would end with a period
or exclamation point, even just a question mark.
Instead I was left with a simple,
unpunctuated sentence, that was cut off.
I now know that happy endings
are supposed to stay in favorite books.
Life is more complex than
perfectly squared endings in neat boxes.
Life ends in the middle of a verse-
Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 4:47 PM UTC
I thought that the end would be poetic,
like our favorite novels that end so cleanly.
I thought it would end with a period
or exclamation point, even just a question mark.
Instead I was left with a simple,
unpunctuated sentence, that was cut off.
I now know that happy endings
are supposed to stay in favorite books.
Life is more complex than
perfectly squared endings in neat boxes.
Life ends in the middle of a verse-
