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This will be a free-verse poem, Gale's POV, set as if Katniss had died sometime during the 74th Hunger Games and the wars never happened and weren't going to. He doesn't believe that she chose Peeta, not really, and is trying to get over it.

I shed tears

When I found out

That you were gone.

I cried and sobbed,

But then

I realized,

You wouldn't want that.

You would want me to

Smile

Because you lived.

I closed my eyes

When I found out, and

I prayed

For all I was worth,

That you'd somehow

Come back,

Come back to me.

But then I realized

You wouldn't want

That, you'd want me

To open my eyes

And see

All that you

Have done,

All the good you left,

All the strength

You gave me

With your short

Yet beautiful

Life.

My heart was empty,

When I found out,

I couldn't

See you, so

My heart cried.

But then I realized

You wouldn't want that,

That you would want

My heart to be full

Of all the good

Memories

And love that

We shared.

I turned my back

When I found out,

Left the world

And dwelt in

Yesterday.

But then I realized

That you would want me

To be happy

To see tomorrow,

A brand new day,

Because of

The memories

We shared.

I cried and cried

When I found out,

Because I knew

That you

Were gone,

Never to come back.

But then I realized

That you would want me

To remember you,

Cherish you,

Your memories,

And let you go,

Let your memories

Live on.

I closed my mind

When I found out, and

I cried for all I was worth,

I turned my back

On all I knew

And sat

In melancholy,

Empty

Without you here

With me.

But then I realized,

You wouldn't want that.

You would want me

To open my

Eyes

And see,

See the beauty that you

Left behind.

See the memories

That you

Created.

Remember the good times that

We had

Together.

I decided, right then, to

Instead:

Open my eyes,

Welcome the memories,

Welcome tomorrow,

Welcome the world,

Smile at the memories,

Smile at tomorrow

Smile at the world,

Love the memories,

Love the world,

Love tomorrow,

Love you

And all you left behind,

And move on.

Right then I decided

To love you

And our memories,

Move on,

And do

What you

Would want me to do.

Laugh,

Love,

And Live.