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Remember Me?

I cried when you cried

and kissed when you kissed.

Now if I died,

I'm unsure I'd be missed.

 

Remember me?

I told you it was OK

when it really was not OK

when you touched me

inappropriately

on my own couch

that one night

after we saw the film

about a graffiti artist.

It was not OK,

I'm still not OK.

 

Remember me?

I said it was no big deal

when it really was,

obviously,

a big deal

that you started liking her

instead of me.

It was a big deal,

when I asked you

to kiss me in the halls.

 

Remember me?

I'm not your little girl anymore.

I am seventeen years old,

and I can't breathe most nights.

Things are not OK.

Things are a big deal.

So much so,

that it is

OK.

It's fine, really.

No big Deal.

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Published
Aug 30, 2010
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