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The Best Time For Me to Exist

November 9, 2018
By Madeliaccola PLATINUM, Asheville, North Carolina
Madeliaccola PLATINUM, Asheville, North Carolina
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is not right now.

It’s because I’ve done everything

and gotten nothing done;

I’ve loved so much into empty space;

I stared until my eyes teared up

and froze the droplets in place;

I write this with a headache and prayers

I’ve made, written so they never fade;

my words hurt me more than you

though you’re the one I dedicate things to;

I can’t please myself, though I

know me more than anyone else,

I know what I could be doing now

and for that I suppose I can say:


the best time for me to exist

is the day I love me how I love you.


The author's comments:

As the poem says, I wrote this with a headache; more specifically, late last night, and I wasn't even awake enough to read over it again at the time to make edits. At the same time, though, it's another extremely honest poem in which I dumped a summary of my thoughts. I hope people enjoy reading this blessed mess. Grazie!


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