Leslie's Death

I let you die

Trying to go

To Terabithia

All alone

I am sorry

I should have

Warned you

The water was high

But you wouldn’t

Listen to me anyway

So why

Should I have tried

This is a parody to the poem “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos William. This is a poem about when Leslie died trying to go to Terabithia. The speaker in this poem is Jess. The audience that this poem is to is Leslie. The tone starts off sad and sorry and turns into sarcasm. The mood of the story is that he is not sorry for her death and is happy he doesn’t have to deal with her anymore.