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No Feelings Needed

July 23, 2011
By PoeticHeart SILVER, Jacksonville, Florida
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I smile and wave happily
She frowns and shakes her head
I embrace her and laugh loudly;
She shrugs, quietly waiting

I think of how much I love him
She thinks of how much she can’t trust him
I feel my heart buzz when I hear his name
She feels nothing; no vibrant motion

I never doubted her
She always doubted me
I knew I couldn't trust her,
She knew she couldn't trust me

I knew we would never get along
She knew we were two different people
But put into one sound body
We knew each other so well,
Because she was me

© Susannah B., Greenwich, CT

The author's comments:
I think I wrote this poem after listening to my best friend talk about how she's always unsure about how she feels when she dates someone. I got this idea of having two sides of you; optimistic and pessimistic. Like the drama masks, there's always a side of you that doesn't believe that it's going to work out, but then again... there is still that one side that always has hope.
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