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A year ago today

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Submitted by imagine on July 5, 2008 - 09:31.

A year ago today

By Camille Bower
Mount Mansfield Union High School, Grade 11

Written yesterday.

A year ago today I watched you as you walked on the other side of the road, dressed in black, trench coat sweeping out behind you, a ponytail trailing from your head that I longed to feel tangled in my fingers.

A year ago today you came over to my house for the first time to get a ride to the other boy's house. You came into my room and told me it was the most artistic thing you had seen in a long time, and you made me nervous in that furious, adrenaline rush type of excitement.

A year ago today I brought you into my woods and you climbed into one of the trees and I speculated with my almost-14-year-old mind that you looked so much like a nymph, dressed in black with the brilliant green surrounding you and your dark eyes, piercing, so hypnotizing. We talked about songwriting, how not everything has to rhyme, and about an opera you wanted to write; but I was paying more attention to the shape of your lips than to the words they were forming.

A year ago today we went to the boy's house and I sat on his bed playing Dear Prudence while I watched the back of your head and wished you would sit next to me and wished that I wouldn't have to leave so soon.

Today I'm more changed than I would ever think possible.
Today the dreams still flood my mind.
Today I wish I could talk to you more than anything else.
Today I love you.
Today I miss you.

God, I miss you.

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This is so beautiful,sad,and

Submitted by misilover on July 14, 2008 - 15:59.

This is so beautiful,sad,and wonderful.

I especially like the ending.

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