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10 Things I Never Told You But Wish I Did

April 6, 2016
By August7682 BRONZE, Orlando, Florida
August7682 BRONZE, Orlando, Florida
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1: I used to fantasize about us listening to that song that always reminded me of you and we'd be laughing and singing and we wouldn't have a care in world except where we were gonna buy our french fries. I'd feel as free as a dandelion petal blown from your lips and my hair would blow in the breeze while we coast down the boulevard.

 

2: I snuck out of class one time to text you. I thought I was super cool for doing something bad... but then I had to do the entire science experiment with my phone in my jacket sleeve. I came pretty close to lighting it on fire with a bunsen burner, actually.

 

3: I remember how you could make anything hilarious. Whether it was laughing about overrated jokes from the internet or ironic things we probably shouldn't even be laughing about, you'd turn the situation upside down because that's the way you liked to see the world, you know, when the ocean and sky switch places because looking from another angle can make everything look different.

 

4: I lost sleep of worrying about you - I would awake in a cold sweat worried that my biggest nightmare would come true.

 

5: I would always push accusations of you to the back of my mind, but little did I know that when I thought I was protecting you I was really protecting myself.

 

6: I miss your laugh

 

7: I miss your smile

 

8: I miss the way you cared about everyone. Your heart was so big that all the 7 billion people on this earth could have a piece of it, a chance to taste the love and sweetness that resided in there, and when all the sugar saturated in the bottom you always knew how to shake it back up again, but man did they take every last piece. They took it all so that you were left with an emptiness that you had to fill with something else. And you filled it up, but it wasn't with love.

 

9: I can't imagine a world without you

 

10: You were the first and only person I turned to for a very long time, and  you were the only one who could really give me hope. You gave me a piece of your heart too, except that I cherished mine. And I still, to this day, I wear your heart on my sleeve.


The author's comments:

This was written to be performed as spoken word. It was inspired by a collection of friendships ending, friends moving away, and a friend being diagnosed with cancer.


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