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Last Summer

May 25, 2012
By paigeforeman GOLD, Washington, District Of Columbia
paigeforeman GOLD, Washington, District Of Columbia
18 articles 6 photos 43 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible!"-Walt Disney
"It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."-Gandhi
"The truth is out there."-The X-Files


Funny how we remember what we want to forget,
How we forget what we want to remember.
Tears fall with monsoon rains and I’m wet.

I’m just a piece on their chess set,
But I didn’t feel like being one in the summer.
Funny how we remember what we want to forget.

Brother and I had a dangerous bet,
I am who I am and I don’t want to be her.
Tears fall with monsoon rains and I’m wet.

I’m claustrophobic where I sit,
It’s warm, but feels like December.
Funny how we remember what we want to forget.

That’s over and I hear the flush of a toilet.
I don’t like what I see in the mirror.
Tears fall with monsoon rains and I’m wet.

It’s a struggle and I’m not sure how to deal with it.
Memories flood and it’s such a bummer.
Funny how we remember what we want to forget.
Tears fall with monsoon rains and I’m wet.


The author's comments:
A villanelle I wrote about some hard times I went through last summer.

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