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when i look back on this

April 15, 2010
By tracknvball8 SILVER, Latham, New York
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"Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward."-Marilyn vos Savant

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When I look back on this
I will see all the mistakes I’ve made
The friends I’ve gained
The friends I’ve lost

When I look back on this
I will see the foolish things I’ve done
The pranks I’ve pulled
The jokes that were nonsense

When I look back on this
I will see the way I thought
The naiveness of my words
The falseness of my choices

When I look back on this
I will regret the time I spent
The time I wasted over you
The time that I was dumb

When I look back on this
I will cringe at what has happened
It won’t ever come back
Nothing will ever change

But when I look back on this
I will realize
That every moment of my life
Has gained me knowledge
To become someone better
Not to make the same mistakes
Becoming the best person I think I will be
At least until tomorrow

© Ezekiel R.

The author's comments:
every choice i make seems to go through this >.> maybe you'll think its a dumb poem but... oh well XD

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DaylightDarkness SILVER said...
on May. 13 2010 at 10:06 am
DaylightDarkness SILVER, Littleton, Colorado
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This is really good, the one thing that got me was that in the 1st and 4th stanza i kept rereading the last two lines because my mind was trying to reverse the order they had been written in.