Hanna A.

Extinguished Hopes

You have forgotten me well.


I see you no longer remember,


The days casting a spell,


Embodying December.


That month, with that day,


Where you tossed us away.


I gaze at you now, happy, unchained,


While I dwell home alone with our memories maimed.


You forgot what you’ve done, the rips you have caused.


The tears I still cry, broken, unpaused,


A token of fears which split us apart


With tearing, ensnaring my numb, wounded heart.


Their true colors forgotten, and now I see you.


Blissful, somehow, but what shall I do?





[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2012 EDITION]


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