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guilt

Guilt

He looked through an old photo book, thinking back to the happier times of his life. He could see the smiles on her face as he looked at pictures of himself with his girlfriend. The happiest pictures were of them at the baseball game, them feeeding animals at the zoo, and lastly a picture of them having a snow ball fight in January.

Just to see you smile

Forgive me, please?
Will you, I’ll beg.
Your eyes avoiding mine stings.
Yet still not as much as the burn,
Of when they occasionally meet mine.
Your pupils, blackened with disdain.
Your lips screaming disgust,
Without moving at all.
I yearn for the air, thick with anger,
To be cut, one smooth motion.
Broken by forgiveness.
Forgive me, please?
Will you, I’ll beg.

Ghost of the past

Ghost of the Past

By Meg Miller
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

She can’t believe she did it
That unforgivable crime
It is sitting in her memory
Eating her up one piece at a time

It is an unfriendly ghost
in the back of her mind
In the day she can’t walk
For fear it will sneak up on her from behind

In the nights she can’t sleep
The nagging is always there

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