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#293561voted by our readers
By Anonymous

When people asked me if I miss him or not, I say, “I don’t.” When they ask if it’s weird not having him around, I say, “No.” And when they ask if it was hard when he left,...

#293562 Poetry
By Amelia_Rose SILVER
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Amelia_Rose SILVER, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
7 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
Nothing lasts forever

#293563 Poetry
Tiffanie_marie GOLD, Sedro-Woolley, Washington
18 articles 1 photo 22 comments

Favorite Quote:
Don't tell me the sky is the limit, when there are footprints on the moon.

#293564 Poetry
haydenjefferies SILVER, Spring, Texas
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#293565 Poetry
BreeKlineShwester BRONZE, Renton, Washington
2 articles 9 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
And in that prison cage may be only you, but since shadows lurked its only true to assume, but I may have been the darkness or I could've been the guard, could've been most anything in that dark room. but that fear would drive many insane, so I stay as the shadow, because even as the smoke from a candle twists and turns up and up into a wisp it never leave, only disappears, but as those eyes may not hide, there is something behinds those other eyes, and pain and grief is flooding in once you see secrets within that deep silent glare. but in this time I do see, I and the darkness made flesh, cause if that darkness is over used and over thrown, it needs something else to hide its secrets, to hide its pain, and while it does not help me, I understand what it is to let free, and now I am the darkness I never meant to be in that safe dark cell, was ONLY me

#293566 Poetry
By Spock GOLD
Weston, Wisconsin
Spock GOLD, Weston, Wisconsin
17 articles 0 photos 5 comments
#293567 Poetry
By Paladin14 PLATINUM
Haledon, New Jersey
Paladin14 PLATINUM, Haledon, New Jersey
28 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I ended up falling in love with the moon, because it faithfully showed up, night after night.

#293568 Poetry
By MiaBlush BRONZE
Visakhapatnam, Other
MiaBlush BRONZE, Visakhapatnam, Other
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#293569 Poetry
By nisag BRONZE
Christiansburg, Virginia
nisag BRONZE, Christiansburg, Virginia
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
holly.mccallahan GOLD, Mclean, Virginia
11 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
it doesn't make sense to let go of something you have wanted for so long, but it also doesn't make sense to hold on when there's nothing there...