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  Possess: have as belonging to one

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  this air that i breathe isn’t mine and i can’t reach out to touch your hand for it isn’t mine to hold i can’t pick up the shattered pieces i’ve seen lying on the floor with its fragments swept up into corners gathering dust and feeling want because you aren’t mine to fix ...
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  A Snowflake in Spring

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  It was the first day of spring and we decided to take a bike ride through the town. As we rode I felt a snowflake land on my cheek. It stayed for a moment before melting towards my chin like the tear I dared not shed. Even though I knew it was a new season, I still felt the frozen fingers of winte...
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  Intuitive One Night Stand

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  all she wanted was for someone to come up to her and say “i see the way your eyes grow sad when you turn to look away i’ve noticed how your smile falters how your laugh sounds hollow and your fingers tremble and i won’t promise to stick around forever but i can promise to press my li...
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  I Wanted To Leave You Behind In That Diner

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  I could say that I am over you but I'd be lying through my teeth I know this because the thought of you stained every word I wrote on the napkin I left between the cushions of the booth in our favorite corner of that diner across the street from the movie theater where we first sp...
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  Alone in a Room Full of People on a Tuesday Evening

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  she stretched her hand out towards the static hearing the whispers retreat into their hollow shells and that was the time she decided to love herself because she figured somebody had to...
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  Unraveled

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  This sand is speckled With shards of broken glass, you warned As I dragged my feet along the shore And laughed at your concern I’d offer you my heart My soul! If you would care to take them You see this fragile skin of mine? My pulse running swiftly beneath a flimsy barrier? Ah - but i...
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  Secret

  

  By AmyLeigh, Pompton Lakes, NJ

  I am fragile But so are you I have held my breath Anticipating all that you Could possibly ignore And I’m not afraid of much But I am afraid of this I’ve spread my arms wide To the sound of crashing waves And felt it rush through my chest As if I could not contain it And neither cou...