Poem: What Do I Do?

Do I give you what you want 

So you won’t leave me 

Do I lie to you in hopes

That you’ll believe me

Or do I tell you this is it

Take it or leave it

Will you stay or will you go 

Hard to believe it 

This is something that you want 

And it’s not a give and take 

I have no say in what you do

I can’t believe you want a break 

You say it’s only temporary 

But I don’t think this is the case

Once you are gone for just a while 

You won’t return to our place 

Written July 11, 2025

© 2025 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only. 

Poem: Fading Away

I should’ve done all to make you stay

I shouldn’t have let you get away 

Instead I just froze and stayed that way

And what we had had died that day

There’s nothing left for me to say
I cannot face another day
Without you here I cannot stay 
My mere existence fading away

If I cannot function when I press play
Then what am I doing here anyway 
An inner voice whispers to me today 
It should’ve been me that died that day

Written July 22, 2025

 

© 2025 by Lena Kovadlo. Use with permission only.