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Jillian Gilbert

It was fated
and I waited
till we met
again
in the middle,
but when I
started
you were
already on
the outs,
and I had
grown able
to find other
affections.
I dealt
what I
thought was
honesty
and learned
to hold
on to it,
and my shit.
And then their
was Kristen Revel
and I fell
upon new
faces, such
as Nicki Doller's...
and by the time
I left
I too left
a girl calling.
And I took
with me
the one
I wanted
most.
The one
still not a memory
and still not a ghost.
Oh, peppermint
Princess
how I did
wish we would
have kissed,
but alas
like you
once told me,
now many years between,
that you always
wanted to be loved
for who you are
and now I love you
for who you were.
You were the girl
who always
walked around
looking down,
but without
a frown.
Hair wet
and always
wearing
a green patagonia
fleece we
shard the
graces
of Mr. Bacon's
morning class.
I'd get their
early
and always
wait and learned
to trust
fate,
that you would always
be a little
late,
in running past...

Now we are both grown,
and you more beautiful
than what my simple
mind could have pictured
and wiser
and nicer
still.
Sure life is a worry,
but I never doubted
you then
and hope to
have the chance
to come and depend
on you as a friend.
I eventually
learned to
let go of
a fantasy,
but tried
again
in the future,
and found similar
results,
but learned
a taste
for what life
had in store
for me with
you and
I will treasure
those
moments
of the mornings
so well.

-Ingert