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Sour Patch


Mama always used to say live within the present, To maintain myself strong, To love the past, but just forget it, A taste of history, Can't last within my teeth. You're the candy I've been chewing for as long as I remember, It started out so sweet, So soft, and just when it got tender, The flavor starts to fade, Along with your parade, Of spiked roses with confetti thrown straight into my eyes, It stung a little bit, But hey, we all have to cry, At least once in our life, Although for you, it's my sixth time. Don't worry 'cause a guy like you really isn't worth it, I'll spit you right back out, Onto the wrapper in my pocket, I dont want cavities, From chewing artificial candy. I came to notice that the sugarcoated melts tomorrow, It's a temporary liking, Well that's about all that I do know, But for now my lesson learned, Is to choose better candy on my next turn.
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ScottBailey
<p>Dear&nbsp;<a href="http://www.powerpoetry.org/poet/alalou101/poems" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicStd-Book, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; color: rgb(0, 98, 160); background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);">alalou101</a>:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your tone of poem reminds me of Edna St. Vincent Millay&#39;s poem</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Times;"><tbody><tr><td><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px;"><b>I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear</b></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">I shall forget you presently, my dear,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">So make the most of this, your little day,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">Your little month, your little half a year,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">Ere I forget, or die, or move away,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">And we are done forever; by and by</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">I shall forget you, as I said, but now,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">If you entreat me with your loveliest lie</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">I will protest you with my favorite vow.</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">I would indeed that love were longer-lived,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">And oaths were not so brittle as they are,</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">But so it is, and nature has contrived</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">To struggle on without a break thus far,&mdash;</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">Whether or not we find what we are seeking</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><font size="3">Is idle, biologically speaking.</font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-left: 100px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px;"><i>Edna St. Vincent Millay</i></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p>
alalou101
Hope all of you can relate to this. I'm pretty sure we all can, unless we just have pocketfuls of luck.

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