What did I do that was so bad?
For him to find a new girl on Myspace, might I add?
Sitting in this car with him, all I can do is tell myself not to stare,
While I just do not care.
What did I do that was so bad?
Why did you force me to go on this trip, dad?
Being with him is just too much for me to bear
While I pretend not to care.
This was not supposed to turn out this way
I know what I did was wrong; I got that okay.
She hates me, I am quite aware
While I just do not care.
This was not supposed to turn out this way
All because of this game I’ve been forced to play
The secret I hide is the reason why- she is so unaware
While I pretend not to care.
I don’t know why I even try
He is such a typical guy!
Because when I declared, "I love you," he met me with a blank stare.
And now I'm left pretending not to care.
I don’t know why I didn’t even try
To tell her the truth, but how could I reply?
“You’d hate me if only you knew.” That’s real fair.
But now I’m left pretending not to care.
“I love you,” he responds far too late, hoping to amend.
Hoping to stop all the aches.
But can the truth make up for these mistakes?
When they both pretend not to care.
For there are two sides to every end
And while each heart breaks
Will they do whatever it takes?
When they can no longer stand pretending not to care.
Author notes
Well this is a project for my English class. We had to write a ballad on a book we had read this 6th weeks. The book i chose was called Two Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt and it was an awesome book.
Good? Bad? Ok?
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I think you did a really nice job with this poem myself! I've never read the book which has inspired it, but from just taking your words for what they had to offer, I truly enjoyed this. I like the repeated line. Emphasized just right...not overly done at all. Also the questions asked all throughout the poem keep the reader's attention a bit more, I think. I always like questions asked within a poem. Nice job!
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Not a bad poem, but the title turned me off a bit with the way you had the number "2" instead of the word "to". The emotions in this piece are good, but the rhyme is pedestrian and changes within the last two stanzas - was that intentional?
But overall, pretty good. Hope you get a good mark for your english class.
Forever--x
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this is great
i love the repetition of the line "pretending not to care"
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"bear" is supposed to be "bare" .
I love the flow of this, so natural and song-like. Awesome write. Made me think, and bittersweet happy.
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ahhh thanks for the correction! greatly appreciate it!
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umm no its actually not.
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thanks.
i didn't think so but yeah thanks for the clarification.
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