epigraphs...

Day 10 - pick a one line song lyric to serve as an epigraph to your poem.  Then, write the poem.
(I know I've done this before and I know I've done it with this particular song and I also know that I'm so over poems!)  


Adele - Someone Like You


I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it. I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over.


Took me a minute to realize that we were not a movie
That the previews had foreshadowed nothing the ending of us had revealed
I left pieces of myself on your voicemail waiting for you to respond while I waited for you to return
Only to realize that I didn't even recognize you anymore
And that I was barely recognizable myself with puffy eyes and lips so tired of calling your name 
I really didn't want to show up at your front door that night
But I drove there by habit, muscle memory
It was the only place to go 
You were my refuge long before you became my war
But either way, I was running towards or from a battle I had no chance of winning
And I surrendered
Laid there on your front steps curled up in the last two years we shared
Hoping you would see that our memories were never better than our potential
Wondering if you could hear my dreams breaking under your tongue
I gave up in front of you
I let my guard down in front of you
I sat silently in front of you hoping that you would hear your heart remind you of someone your brain conveniently forgot
You were so done, so through, so gone but for me…
For me, it just wasn't over.