Endless Tragedy

This was written for my creative writing class. It is a reverse poem so you read it like normal but when you read the last line you then read from the bottom up. I hope you enjoy!

Someday I'll let you go

but not today.

You always seem to win, while I always lose;

I am in his for forever.

I don't believe

I deserve better.

I am stronger than you

but I'm not.

I'm crushed and isolated

You like it when

You're in control.

This situation isn't hopeless, yet

I know it is.

I'm hurting and

it's because of you

They think 

hiding is the answer.

I don't think that

I have a choice.

I am trapped in

this un-true love

I think about leaving

and want to know if it's that easy.

I'm feeling empowered

I'll have to change that.

When it's just me and you I feel so alone,

My words are drowning:

But they won't be the only ones unless I turn this around.

*Reverse Poem- when you read the last line you then read from the bottom up.

Author's Note

The very last line is to be read only once, and when you read it 'backwards' you just go by lines.

Reviews

[ashw]

Very good, I would struggle so much trying to write that, where it makes sense both ways, I would have given up!! Love the concept and the writing was great!

[Lyn Anderson]

A very good piece. A matter of fact, painful way of looking at the trap of an unhappy and or abusive relationship and the hold it can have on a person.

[Anna Blackburn]

I really hated writing this way, but once it was finished I was in love with it. I am sort of hesitant because I don't think many people are familiar with reverse poems, so I am afraid some people won't read it from the bottom up afterwards, but that's where it really hits you, I think...

[Lyn Anderson]

I think it is clever, and hard to write. Might be interesting to present it side by each, if you know what I mean, for full impact.

[Anna Blackburn]

yeah...hmm