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The Little Blue Envelope

June 6, 2013
By aleguz21 BRONZE, Montgomery, Illinois
aleguz21 BRONZE, Montgomery, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”


She stood there
staring
At the little blue envelope that arrived last week,
The envelope that once it was opened
Would change her life
Forever

Time froze,
The alarm clock that sit propped
Upon her desk,
Next to that little blue envelope,
Ticks,
And ticks,
Until it stops ticking,
Frozen,
Like her.

The phone rings,
It's her mother
Calling to comfort her
But she doesn't want to talk.

The phone keeps ringing,
Until it stops
And the room is silent,
Once again.

She stood in front of the desk
That holds the little blue envelope,
Until she slowly picks up the little blue envelope,
She tears it to shreds,
And throws it in the shiny black wastebasket,
That was next to the desk
That once was home to
The little blue envelope.


The author's comments:
This poem is a symbol of dreams or aspirations that one might have. Dreams are so easily tossed aside or thrown away when things get tough and the dreamer feels as if there is no chance that the dream will actually follow through.

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