Ebb and Tide 2014 | Page 25

I don’t anymore write like I used to. I may look like I’m perfectly fine, but I’m stuck here, hanging on a very thin line. I don’t as want days pass, to and seem they so turn weak, into weeks. Candy sweet and forevermore. Like that memoir, on our favorite cake store, or that time I told you it was you who I adore. There is no questioning how much I’m missing you, Maybe if you look closely, you’ll see how much I do. I miss that goofy smile, or that messy hair, the times you told me that you care. Reminiscing all of these won’t help me at all, as wishing becomes Maybe I’ll write after all the It will Like be again, pain, fragile somehow, after beautiful one a all I’ll the somewhere, of those fall. begin, scars. somehow. fairytales, or that sweet couple by the ice cream parlor, no more walking out on anybody’s’ door. I’m still writing but not like how it was supposed to be, not like this, not for everyone to see. BY APRIL BITO-ON CONFE SSION I’ve written maybe a thousands of poems before; A WRITE R’S SWEET EST When everything was perfect, when I had you.