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May 19, 2013
By SincerelyManon GOLD, Holyoke, Massachusetts
SincerelyManon GOLD, Holyoke, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
Memories are the only things that don't change when everything else does.


First time I met you,
I thought you were a petty little boy.
At a desk, with a pencil.
Another one of the devils little decoys.
The years they passed all the same,
till all of a sudden I could breath your breaths,
I had a meaning to your name,
under your underarmor was hope, or happiness, or pain.
I started to see different sides
of this boy i thought i knew.
some walls came down from that goofy smile,
and under it all I found you.
In the sweaty days of summer,
my favorite girl brought us closer together.
and all of a sudden you were always there.
A new confident, a second confessor.
And now as lessons have started,
you've helped me along some paths.
Ever so lightly and silently
you pulled at my heartstrings and caught my mind aback.
And all at once it hits me,
The "petty little boy" i once knew.
The boy at a desk with a pencil,
the conflictions are all about you.
So i'll kick dust in my eyes as I watch it,
watch my hopes be covered by sand,
as he slowly eyes me and walks calmly away
walking out of my life, and onto a different, "others dream's" land.


The author's comments:
i don't even know. i get confused a lot.

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on Jun. 7 2013 at 11:11 pm
SincerelyManon GOLD, Holyoke, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
Memories are the only things that don't change when everything else does.

Thank you for being honest and I completely agree! That one line of the poem still throws me off to this day!

on Jun. 7 2013 at 11:10 pm
SincerelyManon GOLD, Holyoke, Massachusetts
10 articles 0 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
Memories are the only things that don't change when everything else does.

Thank you very much!

on Jun. 7 2013 at 11:10 pm
SincerelyManon GOLD, Holyoke, Massachusetts
10 articles 0 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
Memories are the only things that don't change when everything else does.

Thanks for the feedback!

on Jun. 3 2013 at 11:30 am
Carpe-Caffeam GOLD, No Where, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
“If it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” –David Letterman

I love this beautiful poem! My only suggestion is to change the wording of "caught my mind aback" as it seems a bit awkward to say. However, I like how you turned a break-my-heart kind of poetry into pure eloquence, something that very few can do. :D Have a great day!

on Jun. 2 2013 at 7:27 pm
Laugh-it-Out PLATINUM, Brooklyn, New York, New York
38 articles 0 photos 445 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light" --Dylan Thomas

So sweet. So sad. Simply beautiful. Keep rockin

ephemeral GOLD said...
on Jun. 2 2013 at 6:03 pm
ephemeral GOLD, Park City, Utah
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Favorite Quote:
"All that is gold does not glitter/Not all those who wander are lost/The old that is strong does not wither/Deep roots are not reached by the frost"

Simply, perfection

on Jun. 1 2013 at 10:15 am
SincerelyManon GOLD, Holyoke, Massachusetts
10 articles 0 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
Memories are the only things that don't change when everything else does.

Thank you, it was a tough one to write.

Mckay ELITE said...
on May. 31 2013 at 5:00 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
—Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Weihui Zhou

Sad really. I know how you feel. The emotion can be felt throughout the poem.