I'd forgotten about poetry...

I'm sure that
If we wrote poems
About everything
We would be
Happier people.

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It is so delightful
To write a poem
And know it doesn't have to
Rhyme.

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Sometimes God
Makes us forget
Wonderful things
When we are happy
So He can remind us
Of them
When we
Are
Sad.

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Sometimes
I just want to
Write
But I have nothing
To
Write about
And so I
End up writing things
Like this
Because even
Nothingness
Is made more beautiful
In verse.

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Something about
High school
Still calls out to me.
The long
Stone
Echoing
Hallways and
The mindset
Of a
Teenager
And the simplicity
Of life
Even when
It was painful
And barbaric
Appeals to me
Now
That I've
Finished college
And wander
Through long
Echoing
Streets and
Possess the
Mindset
Of a man
Who's lost
The climax of
His life
Without realizing
That that was
What it was.

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There's a girl
That I work with
Who always looks
As though her life
Is caving in
On top of her.
I sometimes want
To just look her
In the eye
And tell her
That someone really cares.
But I don't
And I justify it
To myself
By saying that
I'm on the clock
And should be
Doing work.
The real reason
That I don't
Is because I'm
Afraid
She'd think
I am a weirdo.