Don't Forget

Authors note: After Mr. Johnson mentioned how the older you get, the faster time seems to get. This suddenly made me realize that each school ends sooner and sooner. Before long we will all be graduated, but will we always remember each other? I tried to make the lines longer in the end to show how sometimes we just want moments to last in life.

Don't forget that laugh or smile sitting

That empty silent seat beside

Those common faces so bare and dull

are they still alive?

Don't forget those awkward times with others

The ones you often wish away

They remember them just as well

did they feel the same way?

Those times and days when all was bleak

Yet one smile, a joke made you laugh

Those sitting there right beside

did they take joy in that grin?

Don't forget those single days between

The endless single hours

And at the end you all were cheering

how long did that last?

How long did it last before you remembered

The photos stained with your tears

You remember those times you wish you'd forget

did you finally?

Remember the love and the pain and loss

The death that you felt inside

Those ones that you hated unrelentingly

do you miss them?

Remember those times you laughed and smiled

Those days when nothing would bring you down

And the people you were with who witnessed it

remember them