Forget Poem by Nia Schexnider

I smiled today, at the thought of you.
It was one of those warm smiles,
The type that fills you with appreciation.
But then I missed you.
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How beautiful and short it is,
This time, this life.
How wonderful?
If only we could all know.
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The things we take for granted,
The things we don’t notice,
The people we ignore,
The friendships we neglect.
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So precious are the days,
So soon do we age.
So lonely we become,
Yet we remain so dumb.
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Oh if only we were as one,
We spent our lives intertwined,
As beautiful as it could be.
How soon we would forget.
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