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What Happened To You?

May 28, 2013
By Yilinn BRONZE, Ardsley, New York
Yilinn BRONZE, Ardsley, New York
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I used to know you so well
We used to be best friends
We always said we would be best friends forever
I used to go to your house more than I went to mine
But then we got older
Sometimes I wonder what happened
What happened to being best friends forever?
What happened to all the times we spent together?
Did they just disappear?
Like the you I used to know?
The person that didn’t care what other people thought
The person that didn’t care to be herself
What happened to her?
You used to defend me
Now you just make fun of me
Of my clothes
Of my actions
Of my words
Of me
With your new friends
Your popular friends
Your friends that aren’t like me
The people we used to make fun of together
What happened to that?
What happened to you?
One day you were there
The next day you were gone
What happened to the you I used to know?


The author's comments:
The poem I am sending is about how things and people change. Although people always say things like best friends forever, a lot of relationships always end. Sometimes they end in a fight, and sometimes the two people just slowly drift away, like in my poem. Things don’t always end the way we expect them to, or the way we want them to. Sometimes the people you think you know as well as you know yourself turn out to be someone else. Like there was another person hidden under the person you thought you knew.

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