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January 18, 2012
By annesmit1117 BRONZE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-Mother Teresa

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friend,
dear friend.
i only ask this of you:
that you spare me the daggers
that you hastily aim at my heart
when i stumble
and that once, just once
you aren’t the jagged
hard stubborn stiff
apathetic distant cold
concrete
that scrapes my knee
when i try to fly.

© Michelle B., Blairsville, GA

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This poem is about a painful friendship I had years ago that I never truly got over.
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