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Reality is a slap in the face

November 5, 2009
By Heather Manning PLATINUM, Baltimore, Maryland
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Goes as slow as possible
When you don’t want it
To go slow
You feel like you are getting forced
Into Hell
That time will keep you there
It is just moving
So
Slow
Meanwhile time is a speeding bullet
You can’t stop it
Until you get
Smacked in the face
With reality

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NinjaDucky said...
on Nov. 24 2009 at 5:26 pm
hey heather!!!!!!! you know who this is :). CONGRATS!!!!!!!! im so proud of you that you got ur poem published. and by the way, i love the poem!!!