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(Poetry) Cleaning My Room...

M. Antonio Silas · Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 at 8:28AM · 87 views
I open the door to my room and find something unexpected. My old memories I haven’t
Spoken with in a while, the ones I neglected. Somehow, my vault’s mind remained Unprotected, and it messed with my mind in ways I wouldn’t have expected. I saw my
First girlfriend, my worst relationship, my bad grades, and my nappy braids laying all
On my bed. I shook my head at all of the mistakes I made in my lifetime, but
I decided not to make my prior mistakes effect my current lifeline. On my dresser,
I saw the first time my current girlfriend let me undress her, my various awards, my
Friends that appreciate me, and my full-scholarship to college. In the middle of my floor
Lays my knowledge and my ignorance, constantly dispensing nonsense about things
I haven’t experienced. I know that as you’re hearing this, you probably think I’m crazy,
Or simply to lazy to clean up these random thoughts in my vault. I could have bought
More space to clean up some of these thoughts I consider waste, but I realized that the
Harder they are to find, the more I appreciate the fact that they remain in my mind.
I saw all of those prior love letters that I signed and the sheepish expression I got on my
Face when a friend would get out of line. It’s crazy how time flies. Here I sit in my room,
Simply allowing it to pass me by. I won’t lie though; some of these old memories got the Best of me, and I began to get angry excessively, but I know they are just here to be a
Reminder. They are here to remind me not to make the same mistakes or mishaps again,
Not to try to hard to be a woman’s boyfriend, not to allow myself to try to over-please my Friends, to see a disagreement all the way out until the end. I take some of these Instances, fold them up and put bow on them to offer the gift of advice to that person that
Tried to hard to be nice, just like me. To that person that’s having such a hard time with Life, just like me. To that person that’s too worried about finding a wife, just like me. To That Person that’s thinking like me tonight, no matter how unlikely. All I can say while I’m feeling this way is to appreciate the old thoughts and memories, because after a
While, they won’t come as an express delivery.

Thoughts and constructive criticism are always welcome.

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M. Antonio Silas Pine Bluff, AR

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LaToia Marzette Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 at 9:57AM

that's nice. real thought put into that one huh?!?

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