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#11981voted by our readers
By Anonymous

We had been best friends, but now we don’t talk Blue skies or gray skies, it didn’t matter, I was always at your house You feared someone you knew would see us Although I...

#11982 Poetry
By beauty_and_blood PLATINUM
Noble, Oklahoma
beauty_and_blood PLATINUM, Noble, Oklahoma
31 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
" Life is too short to be shy." - Stephen Payne

#11983 Poetry
jameswritesinsecret DIAMOND, Auburn, Alabama
53 articles 2 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We live until we live no more&quot;<br /> Frontier City- Kings of Leon

#11984 Poetry
taxidriver-logan PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
28 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&lrm;&quot;I am going to be okay.&quot; - AlmostTen

#11985 Poetry
By MayaReardon SILVER
Boston, Massachusetts
MayaReardon SILVER, Boston, Massachusetts
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;No, you cant be my hero, everybody has to learn how to be their own kind of hero&quot;<br /> -Farscape

#11986 Poetry
By samanthastephens2 SILVER
Sellersburg, Indiana
samanthastephens2 SILVER, Sellersburg, Indiana
9 articles 5 photos 14 comments

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 &quot;happy&quot;. They told me I didn&rsquo;t understand the assignment.<br /> I told them they didn&rsquo;t understand life.&quot; John Lennon

#11987 Poetry
By SarahxElizabethxMichelle BRONZE
Hanover, Massachusetts
SarahxElizabethxMichelle BRONZE, Hanover, Massachusetts
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.&quot; - Hunter S. Thompson

#11988 Poetry
By manny08 BRONZE
Mercedes, Texas
manny08 BRONZE, Mercedes, Texas
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#11989 Poetry
By Sarah1517 GOLD
Vashon, Washington
Sarah1517 GOLD, Vashon, Washington
18 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
We never really grow up. We only learn how to act in public.

#11990 Poetry
By lil.awol ELITE
Independence, Missouri
lil.awol ELITE, Independence, Missouri
124 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;there&#039;s a darkness upon me that&#039;s flooded in light, and i&#039;m frightened by those that don&#039;t see it&quot; ~the avett brothers, head full of doubt