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Turning Away

October 30, 2009
By Arashi-Kumo BRONZE, Bedford, Indiana
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Arashi-Kumo BRONZE, Bedford, Indiana
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If you plugged your nose and your mouth while you sneezed, would it come out of your ears or would your head explode?

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Turning Away

Watching you walk away
Was more painful than a thousand hells
Seeing the coldness in your eyes
As you said you never cared
Made those thousand hells a paradise
I loved you
And all you did was turn away
What did I do
To make you hate me so
That all you wanted
Was to turn you back
And leave me alone
You were my first real friend
The first person I ever trusted
I thought I meant something
But I guess I was wrong
Now I’m so cold
I can’t feel anything
Nothingness is all you gave me
And now all I can do
Is look her in the eye
As she confesses her love
And turn away

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
I wrote this in five minutes.
Poetry is not my thing. It's new. And frankly it is quite difficult!
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kay.marie said...
on Feb. 14 2010 at 2:47 am
kay.marie, Towaoc, Colorado
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for your first poem this is a really relateable, really good poem. the word oranization and the flow ; it just hits you ...good job! :)