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Remembering You for All the Wrong Reasons

July 6, 2010
By possiblylindsey GOLD, Keller, Texas
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possiblylindsey GOLD, Keller, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;see? if i liked chris drew, id end up like randy. 5 foot 1 and vegetarian. vegetarians arent men.&quot; -camden<br /> &quot;what are you grinnin&#039; at?&quot; - mr. martinez<br /> &quot;you just cant recreate stupid.&quot; - jacob

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I wish this wasn’t the case.
I wish this wasn’t happening,
wasn’t a threat to
us.
but see, it is.

because when my cell phone lights up with a
text message from you, my eyes no longer
mirror the screen's glimmer.

I don’t find myself backtracking through
conversations past, eager to relive
every linked moment of the two of us.

I don’t find myself aching to see you.

I close my eyes sometimes and try to remember
what your face looks like.
summer is killing my memory, and i struggle to recall
the part in your hair, the width of your smile,
the sound of your laugh.

but I don’t do it so as not to forget you.

I try my best to remember you so that i can
convince myself that
I still want to.

© Heather W., No., Brunswick, NJ

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Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Aug. 17 2010 at 2:11 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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What the front door.

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now thats sad. I love the last stanza, it just barely screams a vague patheticness that isnt so vague. do your dance captain.