Melise Jow spoken word (I Wrote This For You)

The character of Ariana (Melise Jow) performing a poem written by Jasmine Williams. Clip from the movie I Wrote This for You (2018).

My last song

I’m done.
And how many times did I swear this was the last time.
The verse, the eulogy, the praise, the bridge, the hook.
And how many times did I try to convince them to make a home with me.
Then, all, the chorus, but love still always ends with
“I’m done.”

The hook.
I’ve known this to be its translation. A fib, a fable, as if I could wash my hands of the blood, as if I could omit the sacrifice.
I created a civilization of “I’m done” under my tongue not because I could not but because I would not anymore.
Everything is dead here.
Tears are entombed at the bottom of the sea.
Hope and second chances are lost.
I welcome the drowning.

The bridge.
If this is the last song,
if I’m the lyrics, you are the note,
I could drown in your melody.
It took ten sunsets before you said you loved me.
Nine months later I gave birth to your smile.
Eight times a day we would talk, I thought
seven mornings was enough to watch the sunrise with you.
Six times a day you made me scream your name.
Five seconds was all it took for us to break.
Four weeks later you sent me flowers.
Three days later they died.
Two years and neither one of us is happy here. So give me
One good reason

why I should stay.