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this girl

January 26, 2024
By tessafy1 BRONZE, Latham, New York
tessafy1 BRONZE, Latham, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"i miss you more than i remember you"


it's funny—

dying so many times

for someone that forgot your name

last year.


i like to think that you’ll recognize,

my laugh,

my smell,

my heart.


but your eyes evade my memory, and

your smile is lost to history.

the shade of your hair?

i could give a dang about the shade of your hair.

i merely crave your arms wrapped around my torso, saying

“i know you. i know this girl.

i know her.”


your name is a prayer to me,

you, you, you–

in my dreams,

in the air passed between me and my cold pillow,

in the lip gloss i wore around you only.

in the scent of the sea,

and the funny, purple rug around our feet.


so, in the space separating my heart from yours,

a centimeter

or oceans apart,

remember this girl.


The author's comments:

This piece is about forgetting. What details truly matter to people upon meeting? What do they remember? I see pieces of others in my mind, a mosaic. But is that them-- a distorted, broken puzzle? Or do I forget their very soul on parting word?


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