a happily unhappy world

Pietro Candido masterfully paints the Anunciation Angel. Photo via Google under the Creative Commons license.

Rebecca Nassar, Contributor

i’m wide awake yet i still dream of you.

i try to escape, but thoughts of you grip me like a mother’s tight hold on her child.

how could this be?

i was silver,

you wanted gold.

i was a river,

you wanted the ocean.

i was a flower,

you wanted a whole forest.

and i was tired of it.

never again will i reach for the stars only to be scorched by the sun.

never again will your salty words sting my sweet heart.

you will leave and go away to another galaxy, a different world.

my eyes do not want to see you leave,

so my tears will blur the memory.

i lean away only to fall, but not for you.

it’s so sad, isn’t it?

you’re not in my dreams anymore.

 

Author of this poem, Rebecca Nassar ’25, smiles in her freshman photo. (Photo Provided by Rebecca Nassar).