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Dandelion Fuzz

June 8, 2016
By only4mber BRONZE, Barnegat, New Jersey
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I pluck up one of my first memories
Six years old in the outfield of a tee all game
“Dandy-lion” fuzz scatter across the blue sky
White specks of independence

Hope and the future
Don't quite go hand in hand
At six years old, wishing, hoping
On a dandelion

Releasing from what it used to be
Becoming free
But the past isn't the green stem of an unborn flower
And the future isn't a light, airy zephyr
Carrying you and your dreams lightly through the oncoming years

At six you're a dreamer
At twelve you're naive
At sixteen you're broken
At seventeen you're a dandelion
Without the white fuzz

Someone who let go, but still lives in the past
With nothing left to offer,
But salty tears and nostalgia

© Daniel H., Durham, NC

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