Song Lyrics and Pantoums: There Is No Superman

In Creative Writing, we were asked to take lyrics from our favorite songs and to combine them into a meter poem. I chose to do a pantoum. This is two different favorites of mine, "This Is The Story Of A Girl" and "Waiting For Superman." I like it a lot, but I can't take credit for the awesome lyrics I had to work with!

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned her world
She looked so sad in photographs
But I love her when she smiles

She cried a river and drowned her world
She's waiting for Superman to pick her up
She doesn't know I love it when she smiles
She'll smile in his arms someday

She's waiting for Superman to pick her up
An imagined mythical perfect man
She'll smile in his arms someday
I'll watch him take my light away

There's no imagined mythical perfect man
She settles with someone who only pretended
I watch him take my light away
One abuse at a time

She settled for someone who only pretended
And he tore away her shining smile
One abuse at a time
But I know she can find it again someday

That man tore away her shining smile
And hurt her until the day she finally ran
I know she'll find her smile someday
Maybe she'll run back to me

He hurt her until the day she finally ran
Now she's gone, searching for her happiness
Maybe someday she'll come back to me
And I'll see her smile again

She's long gone, searching for her happiness
She used to look so sad in photographs
Now she glows once more
This is the story of a girl