{"sf1_id":387304,"sf2_id":"Oe5b4dlm","title":"I Dare Not Stop You Now","author":"Van Rorie","words":91,"posted_at":"2012-06-08T02:24:00.000Z","tags":["Friendship","Poetry","sadness"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/387304-i-dare-not-stop-you-now","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Oe5b4dlm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/1e/46/1e468ec3-98fb-4d81-8c5b-a4fbe6969562","description":"So, um, well.... I've just learned about someone who, well he isn't dead but I'm not going to be able to talk to him again. I didn't know him for very long, but I feel like we were good friends. I'm really sad right now, and this is what the poem is about.\n-Van Rorie","content":"I dare not stop you now\n\nNow that you are certain\n\nStill though I ask how\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWas there no sign of caution?\n\nOr was I simply blind?\n\nHow did you come to this position?\n\nWas I just another bind?\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI wish you well, now that I hear you go\n\nOr at least I pretend to\n\nBut secretly I wish it wasn't so\n\nStill everything is blue\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nMomentarily I may not happily walk\n\nBut slowly the sadness may fade\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBesides, in my head we can still talk\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}