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April 21, 2011
By snailkisses PLATINUM, Malden, Massachusetts
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I am on a swing.
I feel small,
Almost comforting
To see
How small I am
From here.
Where are my problems?
Where do they go
When I'm in the sky?
They're vanished.
There are no problems
Where I go
In the sky.

© Michelle F., Port Charlotte, FL

The author's comments:
This poem is about looking up at the sky while you're on a swing and realizing that it doesn't matter that some girls are making fun of my clothes. I was inspired to write this poem after a bad day at school, and I went on the swing, and everything dissapeared. I felt small, unimportant, and it really helped.
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remembermeplz PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 27 2011 at 7:03 pm
remembermeplz PLATINUM, Friend, Nebraska
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&quot;when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace&quot; -- Jimi Hendrix

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your welcome =)

yeahh

I didnt really think of it that way but that really makes sense

snailkisses PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 27 2011 at 6:55 pm
snailkisses PLATINUM, Malden, Massachusetts
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&quot;so you&#039;re tired of living, and you feel like you might give in? well don&#039;t. it&#039;s not your time.&quot; - a better place a better time // streetlight manifesto

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thank you :D

i think this is just a matter of how you look at things, pessimisim or optimism, and you can see it as like oh no the world is too big for me, or as: the world is so big so why do i even care? :)

remembermeplz PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 24 2011 at 9:21 pm
remembermeplz PLATINUM, Friend, Nebraska
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wow! this sis mazing!

i feel this way whene Im on a swing too...but I could never put it inot words.

AMAZING!!