The death of us

I wrote this poem a while ago, and wanted to share it :) i'm new to poetry so this is just for fun!

The death of us

I was watching that film we promised to watch together, but we didn’t.

You always did that,

Making me wait for you.

I made it an hour and a half in

And hadn’t thought about you once.

But,

Then that song came on,

The song where my favourite character dies

And I began to cry.

Not because of the characters death,

Because it’s when I realised

We were over.

I watched through blurry eyes

As hundreds of voices harmonised

The agony of their grief obvious.

I sobbed,

Head in my hands

Your face imprinted on my mind.

I felt a cascade of guilt,

For watching it without you,

Even though I logically knew that you had already watched it without me.

But I pushed on,

I finished the film.

Eyes red as I watched the credits roll.

I realised that I had witnessed a death

Not the death of a character,

But,

The death of us.