Ok... I don't have too many suggestions for the structure.. the slow was nice and the idea was great, but especially after reading your a/n I have some thoughts on the continue

In the a/n it seems you're trying to make him sound mature and her a bit juvenile...so with the soccer part instead of saying he was tired and beat, which would honestly ** me as a girlfriend off if he was always tired... I might just say he spends time on it and she becomes jealous of soccer... that sounds a bit more juvenille

But from being jealous you can say that she did really care for him and then go to changing with the friends... then start the next stanza with what her friends did and then the resolution

I think then I might put something about them meeting at the soccer field in the last stanza and then the fairy tales don't always come true... then turn the love and let go into a question like But maybe she could learn from her mistakes? And he could love and let go? and then the second to last line.. and I'd get rid of the last line it's a bit short for the piece and not really important whether it happened now or then

I think that would make the overall message you were trying to get at come across more clearly...

But as it is... it's a really cute little story that we can all relate too..

I liked the poem a lot. It's very original, and the main idea was written obscurely enough to make it interesting and open to interpretation, but at the same time structured adequately enough to make sure it didn't lose meaning.
I like that the wording is simple, which makes it more believable as a school poem. The footnotes at the end were also helpful. The rhyming was also nice, and it didn't feel forced (as rhyming sometimes does).
In my opinion the last half was better than the first, probably because you get more of a point in that part. You might also consider reworking the first line, because it's sort of unclear. "Soccer ball hand in hand" (how do you walk hand in hand with a soccer ball?) I'm probably missing something, but that didn't make sense to me.
Other than that, I really enjoyed it.

This is really good. Although I read your A/N at the bottom, I didn't really need to in the end. All that you said really came across to me in this poem. I liked it a lot. I think you did a great job!
COntinue the great work!!

~angel953

It was nice, I really enjoyed it. The verses are clear and yet the poem as a whole still manages to keep you guessing as to what actually happened. I like ambiguous endings... it does give hope. ;)

Forgive me if the review is short, I'm kinda new to fictionpress - fanfiction is a whole other ball game - yours is the first story I've reviewed :). But I really did like it much!