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Better In Memory

January 13, 2022
By elizabethbroker22 BRONZE, Wentzvile, Missouri
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I was so small, so young

the sky shone brightly down every day 

the water in the pool rose high above me

laughing through fits of breath

there was so much to do,

every activity as new and interesting as the last 


Now, I come back to revisit a memory 

the water rises to my hips, 

the sky is frowning with me

The slide I once was afraid of

stands lower than me

I’m stopped - too old for the slide. 


What is there to do now?

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