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December 9, 2013
By pinkxtine BRONZE, Foster City, California
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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe

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Overtime: asking, telling, sharing fears and all those tears.
Never realize that what you say you overcome every day.
Revealing your feelings, sincerity in your eyes;
But you’ll never be by my side: it all disappears.

All those feelings bottled up, comforting the way you said, “It’s okay.”
Secret times, you would never deny.
Air is clear; all left here.
All those things they disappear;
The chance is gone; you hoped the closeness would never end,
But it did.

Secret lives and times; who would realize?
Revealing, gossip disappearing;
Saying secrets not to tell.
Knowing the truth, shedding a tear;
Saying goodbye to the night of truth.
They say they’re always right there – open ear.
But they soon forget those times during the night of real.

© Jaime M., Wichita Falls, TX

The author's comments:
I wrote this poem a couple months after I had gone on a retreat with girls that I had known for years. I managed to get in the cabin with all the "popular" girls. I really thought that they had changed and would be sincere after the whole experience, but they just went back to how they acted before.
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