_____by Rebecca Strait

You think you are so slick
trying to sit next to me
during graduation....
If you hated me so much
why would you skip the line
and demand to sit
a soul or two away from me?
Perhaps you wanted to celebrate
our departing, my cumming, or your going...
Maybe you wanted me to remember
this day and us frozen in time
as your family snapped photos
and rolled camera's
with me in the background...
Maybe you wanted to say sorry,
to apologize for the pain
or perhaps you wanted me to whisper
what I could not for so long...
If I hand't of fainted
before the end of the ceremony
and if they wouldn't have wheeled me out
on a stretcher before everyone cheered
and marched back home,
would you have leaned over, kissed me,
and said, "I love you" and "I am going to miss you"?

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