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A Last Time

Submitted by 9courtney3 on February 6, 2008 - 22:32.

A Last Time

By Courtney Perry
Bellows Falls Union High School, Grade 9

There is a last time for everything,
A last time for everything and nothing will ever change that

There was a last time for me to see you,
It was the last time I’ll ever see you and nothing can fix that

There is a last time to mourn for what you have lost,
A time to grieve for those who have gone and no one should ever take that away

There is a last time to cry when I remember you,
A final time to allow bitter tears to stain the fragments of you that I can still recall

And finally:

There is a first time for me to smile when I think of you and a kinder time for me to laugh at silly pictures of you and to rejoice when I realize how lucky I was to know you.

There is a last time for everything and nothing can change that,
But for every tearful last time that we may suffer through

There is always a smiling first time waiting somewhere in the future,
Just out of sight around the bend

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