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Regrets

September 25, 2012
By AnnaRead SILVER, Park City, Utah
AnnaRead SILVER, Park City, Utah
8 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers


I think back,
we were so innocent.
The laughter,
the smiles,
now forced.
Everything can
change in a second,
words,
tearing apart,
what was once strong.
Take me away,
tears dried.
Reverse the clock,
stop that cursor from hitting publish.
Take a look into the future,
what this would ruin,
how my life would crumble.
What you had,
what we had,
gone.
The tears fall softly,
without a sound.
Ice and regret,
all the regrets,
piling like so many poker chips,
my future.
My pain cuts though the night,
a sharp knife.
You walk by,
not noticing,
me staring after.
I try to save this,
pleading.
You give me nothing.
I am alone,
navigating lonely waters,
rain cutting into my skin.
The way we joked,
the way we laughed.
Our effortless companionship.
words flowing like water.
What we had,
the blooming flower of friendship.
I had to ruin it!
I had to burn the words that used to sustain me,
scream into the night.
3:00, 4:00,
a new day.
I doesn’t make a difference,
if it only tears us further apart.
Why?
Why did I have to tear apart
the last friendship I had left?
Why couldn’t I have taken counsel,
saved my words,
removed them from my life.
Why couldn't I keep the words
locked in the faulty vault
that is my mind?
Why?
My back is turned,
tears fall as I walk away.
I cut the last thread,
and now everything
is unraveling.



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on Oct. 10 2012 at 7:06 pm
AnnaRead SILVER, Park City, Utah
8 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers

Thanks! 

on Oct. 6 2012 at 1:05 pm
Wolfshadow SILVER, Park City, Utah
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Favorite Quote:
"Some say time is an illusion, others, time is of the essence but time is something we stand by, are comforted by, killed by, and helped by, therefore time is all in our heads, but who says something in our heads,  can't be real?" ~Wolfshadow

This is Abi? Hi! This was really good! You have to keep writing poetry!

on Oct. 3 2012 at 4:38 pm
prettysoccer_girl34 SILVER, Park City, Utah
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Abi that was so amazing! Really sad but well-written!! I love love love it!!! Keep writing pleasessss :)