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Forget
“Forget” 9-28-99 When we are together, I want us to be one. I miss you when we are apart. I can smell you on my skin, and feel you inside my soul. I am drowning in my sorrows, because when our time together is through, I’m not sure how to breathe without you. I want to feel your touch against my face, and hold you in my arms forever. Part of me will die if you forget me, but I cannot truly live unless I forget you.
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Shooting Star
The first poem I wrote in college. “Shooting Star” 9-9-99 You want to go where no one knows you, so you can be anyone, someone amazing. To reinvent yourself as though you’d never lived, never loved, and never lied. -But someone once told you, “You can’t hide who you are, no matter how hard you try.” Soon you’ll pack your bags and move away, to another time in some other place. When you get there, you’ll soon discover that the person you wanted to be already exists. -Because someone once told you, “You can’t hide who you are, no matter how hard you try.” You push people away because you’re…
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Fear
My poetry took a darker twist when I was 17. Hint: It’s not actually about fear. Can you guess what the “it” is? “Fear” 3-17-99 Something stalks and terrorizes me using all its fright, making it hard to sleep at night. I wonder if it’s been there all along, not asking, but making me sing its song? “What do you want?” I ponder. “Oh nothing,” it answers, “I’m only here to wander.” What if it slays me in my sleep, taking away all of the things that are mine to keep? I prepare with all my might to scream, but it calms me as if comforting a child’s bad dream.…
