I'm Worth More

This is a sestina I wrote for my poetry class. Let me know what you think! Enjoy. :)

 

You left me on the front porch.

I was sitting in the dark,

Searching through it to find an answer.

You said I needed to know the truth,

But I would be better off without it.

I thought we were in love?

 

I could feel myself quickly falling in love

After kissing you on the front porch.

That night started off as everything it

Was supposed to be, until the dark

Separated me from you.

Why did you leave me without an answer?

 

You could have given me a simple answer.

Maybe you felt that we fell out of love?

I was depending on you

To stay with me that night on the porch

And to stay with me through the dark,

With no thoughts of ever ending it.

 

But you gave into it;

The lifestyle that had every answer.

Instead of working through the dark,

You gave up on our love.

You walked away from the porch

That night to “find someone who loved you for you”

 

But I did love you for you.

I’m not sure how you didn’t see it.

I meant everything I said to you on the porch.

I want to find the answer

To why you gave up on love.

Instead of working through this, you gave into the dark.

 

Maybe I should have searched through the dark

To find you.

Maybe this was never love.

Maybe you left me because it

Was best for both of us; maybe this was the answer

I was searching for on the porch.

 

I thought I fell in love with you on the porch

That night, but now I know the answer:

Any guy that could leave a girl alone in the dark is never worth it.