Definition of a poem:

  1. A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
  2. A composition in verse rather than in prose.
  3. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
  4. A creation, object, or experience having beauty suggestive of poetry.

I guess you'd call this a poem. A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, and/or emotions. If it's not a poem, then it's just my heart spilled out upon the page.

In remembrance of you, Kasey Torgerson.

I looked up to you

Did I see you as mean
Did I see you as a person that would hit me
And I would hold back the tears of pain that I felt
I held back the expression of pain
Not to show my weakness of it.
Maybe I held back because I didn't want you to know I was just a weak child
Maybe I looked up to you whenever we hung out
Maybe I took the pain because I wanted to be like you
The person that knew no pain

But yet I wanted to be loved
All I ever wanted was you to say
"You're a cool little dude"
or maybe I wanted you to leave me alone
to do something out of my sync for you seems odd to me now
but when I look back I would've done anything for you
when I got old enough
I realized pain wasn't a hero
Or was it to me
This confused me
Maybe I looked up to you still
But I just didn't hang out with you

I sat beside you as you drove down the highway
Listening to the music of the cd you had in
No words would be spoken, but I was someone to hang with
Since I was the only one that was there
I didn't ask you how your life was
I didn't ask if you wanted anything
I didn't ask anything at all
Just the music going through the speakers
Ask you 'how come' was abnormal then

Now in hindsight, I wish I would have heard it from you
Instead of your friends
Now that you are gone I finally realize that you were my hero
And always will be.