JUST LIKE THAT
I saw you once and like a magnet, you drew me close to you.
Without any effort on your part,
I found myself falling for you.
Just like that,
between two heartbeats and my dancing emotions,
I found myself loving you.
I drew Charlie Brown cartoons for you.
I mentioned all the lyrics of the songs
I wanted to sing to you.
I wrote you letters,
a story,
poems
and then this poem
for I’ve seen you
once again.
How can someone
be so real,
yet be so unreachable?
Yet it is the case.
I cannot reach out to touch your hands,
nor hold you in my arms.
I do not scream and shout.
I do not break down and fall apart.
I just wipe a tear away,
my grief unknown to you.
Just like that,
I must end this torment
and keep on walking away.
There’s no us.
Just me.
Just me.
Just me.
Just like that.
By Imelda Caravaca Ferrer
11:00 p.m. May 1, 2014