Free Verse

I can’t remember how to forget you

December 10, 2025

I have a big heart

it’s accustoMed to grow,

after all, I am a teenage girl.

i overthink So much

apologizing So much,

forgiving too easilY,

worry sO much about

people who don’t care Until

i’m gone.

i’m afraid

i wont find

anyone.

just you.

i open up to you,

only you.

i dont know how not to.

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▾ This Poem's Voice

Deeply personal teenage experience, specific emotional vulnerabilities, autobiographical focus

Multiple overlapping ideas: heartfulness, overthinking, apology, worry, fear of abandonment, isolation

Predominantly anxious, fearful, vulnerable with undercurrent of longing and dependency

Restless internal urgency through fragmented syntax and emotional intensity despite lack of exclamation

Approximately 13 lines; single-paragraph free verse in 7-15 line range

Minimal figurative devices; mostly declarative with implied metaphor of emotional growth/expansion

Pure lyric interior monologue; direct first-person confessional voice without narrative distance

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