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Brittany

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

2 poems·Since April 2014

I'm new to the entire writing my own poetry, but I've always loved reading poetry so please don't be harsh when it comes to critiquing my poems.

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I Don't Know Why..

May 6, 2014

I don't know why you obsessed over her. I don't know why you wouldn't leave her alone. I don't know why you couldn't just see what you were doing was wrong. I don't know why you bought a gun. I don't know why you watched her outside her work. I don't know why you approached her. I don't know why you pulled out the gun. I don't know why you pointed it at her. I don't know why you pulled the trigger even when you heard her plead for her life. I don't know why you shot her multiples times. I don't know why you did this to your family. I don't know why...

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