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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Like a Puzzle

Submitted by bananasandcreme on November 1, 2008 - 17:50.

Like a Puzzle

By Shannon Moriarity
Fair Haven Union High School, Grade 9

I waited in the distance,
You were close, yet so far away.
I could feel your breath,
I could hear every step you took.
But as soon as you got too close,
You turned your back,
And walked in the other direction.
Leaving me standing there,
To break into a million pieces.
It’s like I’m a puzzle,
Ready to be pieced together,
Can’t someone save me?
Can’t someone bring me out
From these shadows that surround me?
I know it won’t be you,
With your back turned,
I thought you would be the one to save me.
But instead, it’s her.
It’s her you save.
And you think everything is perfect.
Until she turns her back on you,
Like you did me.
It’s karma, isn’t it?
Now you’re the puzzle,
Broken in pieces,
Waiting to be put together.
You turn to walk back towards me,
And you honestly think
I was to wait for you?
When that was all I did before,
Was wait for you?
And you honestly think
I’m going to put you back together?
I’m sorry, but I’m done waiting.
I found someone
To pick up the pieces of me,
And to put me back together.
I found someone to save me.
No longer am I a puzzle.

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