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  Why Now

  

  By Madison_E, Brownstown, MI

  Why now? Of all the years I spent, wasted, dreaming you'd be mine, why now? All the wishing, hoping, all for nothing, why now? I loved you and painfully loved you alone, why now? I pushed away any opportunity I had at love because that love wasn't you, why now? I gave up because you ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Crushingly Clueless

  

  By Madison_E, Brownstown, MI

  You make it so easy to love you Every little thing It’s like you can’t help yourself You can never love me But everything you do makes me love you I know you don’t mean to It’s not like you care Or you want to be mean You’re just that perfect I try not to love you too I try so ha...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  A Return Address

  

  By Madison_E, Brownstown, MI

  You walk the streets all on your own, but you still have a family, you still have a home. a lost, lonely girl, who just needs some space, get away from the evils, of that one place. the place where she lived, the place where it rained, the place full of fear, the place full of pain. ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  A Place I've Heard Of

  

  By Madison_E, Brownstown, MI

  There is a place a few miles down, It lies on the outskirts of town, A place where time does not exist, A place made of pure happiness. But for this place there is no map, nor special guarentee, that you will ever reach it, so we all must hope and dream. To get there is an accident, tha...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The Girl Who Smiled Through the Pain

  

  By Madison_E, Brownstown, MI

  Dear Maddie, I know this is going to be hard on you. Especially you, Maddie. I’m so sorry I’m doing this, but you need to know that it is the only way. Maddie, I need out. Please don’t think I abandoned you. I would never do that. I need this. For me. For once, I’m going to do something j...