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Breaths for Smiling

October 3, 2010
By genesis27000 SILVER, Mexia, Texas
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Take a deep breath and smile.

For a simple moment
Everything was just great,
Your laughs, flirts, hugs and kisses
Was what I looked forward to.

Take a deep breath and smile.

I wish you would've told me
Everything I'd done wrong,
Maybe then I could've salvaged
Everything we ever had.

Take a deep breath and smile.

I caught a glimpse of what was and could've been
Everything shifts into balance.
Bitterly broken by you,
Successfully repaired by hope.

Breathe, Smile.

© Cerys W., Marblehead, MA

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genesis27000 SILVER said...
on Jun. 21 2011 at 3:15 pm
genesis27000 SILVER, Mexia, Texas
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Thank you so much(: I needed a little reminder to help me remember that I liked to write. Thanks for the comment!((:
jillianatthedisco SILVER said...
on Jun. 15 2011 at 2:04 pm
jillianatthedisco SILVER, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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The repetivity is really affective.

I found myself falling more and more in love with this poem as I read on. 

You're sort of saying... paint on a smile? And how heartbreak breaks the "perfect balance." 

Three words: I feel you. 

:)

Alcanno DIAMOND said...
on Oct. 20 2010 at 6:46 am
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Whoa whoa whoa!!!! THis is so amazing! The flow is so smooth and the way you wrote this is just beautiful. Wow Geni, you don't even KNOW how much I can relate. Well I guess you do know since you wrote it :) I love you Geni, keep writing and check out some of my new stuff if you get a second. <3