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These Last Words

November 24, 2012
By chrissychris2270117 SILVER, Flushing, New York
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chrissychris2270117 SILVER, Flushing, New York
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"There is always going to be thunder, lightning and rain it just matters how you use your umbrella to get to that rainbow."

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Don't know how to say this,
Don't even know how to breathe this,
this moment,
is disappearing.

We only have so little time,
that vanishes so fast,
And I know,
that I've never had that much time to say this,
but I......I....

© Calvin C., Salt Lake City, UT

The author's comments:
the last cold dead silence, before the life of someone vanishes away, is so sentimental. That it shouldn't even exist.
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