So Long Eighteen

Dear 18, see you in memory

Life was a race

And there's love I did chase

Here's to next chapter

Got to grip the rope tighter

But in a blink of an eye

Some moments couldn't just die

In retrospect of this journey

The eighteenth version of me

I lived and breathed alone

A silver lining have shown

Though sunshine wasn't always a promise

At least I had hopes to kiss

I learned to terminate what cannot last

Accepted what vanished that fast

I slept without a dark room

Haunted tears weren't there to doom

I left the empty corner where I shattered

Moved forward even if I faltered

Heart kept losing vigor

Yet I stood like the best warrior

I lost, I won, I shared my victory

I was shamed, I was praised,I offered my glory

I won't run, I won't lag behind

One step at a time and I can unwind

Now there's a new portal I see

Dear eighteenth, see you in my memory 

 

Reviews

[Daisie Vergara (Dhaye)]

Happy 19th birthday then. LOL
It's how I read your poem, PM.
All memories can't be erased anymore. They will be like ghosts trying to haunt us anytime. But when we have accepted that it's what we call as life, then probably, we can just smile at those ghosts.
Well-penned vent. Keep going.