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The Paper Forgotten

June 28, 2014
By CourtneyLudwick GOLD, Yorktown, Texas
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Coffee falling
Burning
The paper forgotten
On your desk

Ink stains
Smear again
As the liquid tears
The paper forgotten

A poem
A story
Thoughts collected
Forever gone
On that paper forgotten

Never knowing its
Contents
Never knowing
The paper forgotten

© Hannah U., Staten Island, NY

The author's comments:
This is a short poem explaining how so many of our thoughts become forgotten as we move on to different things. A million ideas run through our minds, but we forget so many of them.
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