The Rueful and Hopeful

To all the fictional characters out there

When in the sun I lay
All those crystal memories
Those make my day
All the books I read
All the lives I lived
While sitting on the bed
Dreading your end

Year after year
Each 500 pages I read
Each year hoping for the end
Yet every time anxiously waiting for it not to happen

I cried for you
I laughed with you
I fought along with you
I hushed those mocking tones for you
I lived for you
I died for you
I rejoiced with you
I grew up with you
I grew up for you
And yet you left me

You left me alone to fend for myself
All of you left me
In this cruel harsh world
You left me alone in the real world
You may have given me a much needed break from the my world
At a place where I belonged

But you still left me
After all I did for you
You still left me
In reality