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Let’s Get This Straight MAG

February 21, 2017
By Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Just remember, if the world didn&#039;t suck, we&#039;d all fall off.&quot;<br /> -Derrolyn Anderson<br /> <br /> &quot;Don&#039;t trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;The sea speaks more honestly... To those willing to drown.&quot; -J.D. Hard


You expected me
To hold onto something I’d
Never want to be?



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on Mar. 15 2017 at 9:56 am
Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Just remember, if the world didn&#039;t suck, we&#039;d all fall off.&quot;<br /> -Derrolyn Anderson<br /> <br /> &quot;Don&#039;t trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;The sea speaks more honestly... To those willing to drown.&quot; -J.D. Hard

@eshaansoman Hello, and thank you so much for the response, it means a lot to me! There was one specific factor that made this haiku just come to me when I had woken up. I just got over a nasty break up, and the person had never accepted who I was. He always tried to change me and make me what he wanted, and that was not going to fly. I refuse to change myself for anyone because I personally believe that if someone doesn't love you for who you are, then it wasn't love at all. But, please, interpret this piece however you wish. I believe that my poems should give the reader their own experience and not my own personal one. Thank you so much for the feedback, I love when people show interest, it makes me feel as if I should keep writing! Have a great day! -Katie :)

on Mar. 15 2017 at 9:20 am
eshaansoman SILVER, Hillsborough, New Jersey
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So clever! What inspired you to write this haiku?