Anna Lachelt is an English Major at Colorado Christian University. Her focus is creative writing, predominately Fiction and Poetry. Her poetry is often inspired by the characters she writes about in her fiction or are self-contained stories within the poems themselves.
The Truth in the Tale
One day they’ll tell the story of a hero.
I swear one day the world will know your name.
But I can’t tell them everything. I can’t
Show them a soul like yours, a soul that glowed
With sun-like warmth and lit the sky at night.
You were a heart that beat out love, the hero
they needed. They will never understand
You like I did, my friend and my beloved.
You’ll only be a story on a breath,
A whisper in the wind, a tale they tell
By fire light and on cold winter nights.
But here’s the truth as I stand at your grave,
You always were the angel in my story.