Maya Reid Poems

We’ve been through it all
Ups and downs
Highs and lows
It’s been a long year
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It’s easy to get lost
Inside the maze
Inside yourself
To lose yourself
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Wow...look at you – fifteen
It seems like we’ve been together through it all
Through the good, the bad, and the in-between
Always lending a hand to prevent one another’s fall
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We ended.
It was over.
This relationship,
This strange and unexpected love,
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Firstly, get that idea that you’re old out of your head:
it’s funny, but as I get older, you seem to age
backwards. Sometimes you’re the youngest woman I know, a mother
who both teaches and learns, bounces back from her falls, makes me think of music.
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My stepdad used to find himself friggin hilarious
And one of his favorite jokes was to say,
When someone had hurt themselves in some small way,
“Well how about I stomp on your foot?
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The other day I “borrowed” your sweatshirt
You eventually stole it back again
I said I wanted it
Because it was so warm
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I overslept
I missed the bus
I was late to school
I failed a test
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As humans, we never really fall out of love
We move on with the world because we have to
But you fill the empty spaces of my heart
And not even you can keep me from loving you
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If you were living my life
It’d always be your fault
The apocalypse could come
The sky could come crashing down
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