First off, I'm surprised. It's been a while since I've come up with any form of poetry, even free verse stuff like this.
Secondly, I wasn't sure where this was going when I started writing it. I had the idea of the first few lines, and just started writing. The rest just sorta came out.
This is apparently about what I was feeling/thinking when a good friend of mine left town. She had been living with me for a month (in my tiny apartment) and we had really gotten to know each other in that time. I didn't realize just how close we had gotten until she left. This is what played out in my head on our last night together, while she was loading her stuff into the moving truck (in a different part of Ames).


I'm a little rusty, but feel free to let me know what you think.