I Like to Write Poetry

I used to write poetry all the time.

Especially in high school.

I found this on my computer.

It was written about two months before Elder Jeff Gibson left for his mission.

It was later revised this last April.

Run Around in my Head

I could write a million words

Sonnets

Satire

A love poem for you

It sounds so cliché

When I speak of you

How you

Run around and around in my head

You run around and around in my head

Run around in my head

Every little glimpse of your face I get

As you run your pace

                                                            Pace

Run your pace

Around in my head

My head

Run around in my head

The memories of you

I hold on to

                                                            To

I hold on to you

I cup my hands around your imprint

                                                            Your imprint

Cupping my hands around your imprint

On my cracking heart

                                                            Cracking heart

Take good care of my heart

Because I pushed you away for so very long

Now when I came to let you in

                                                            I let you in

I finally let you in

I must let you go

                                                            Let you go

You must go.

-- Nikki Nebeker

December  17, 2009

Revised April 4, 2011