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In the moment

May 10, 2014
By AlliOlmstead BRONZE, Santa Clarita, California
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AlliOlmstead BRONZE, Santa Clarita, California
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"We gain strength, courage, and confidence in which we really stop to look fear in the face, we must do that which we think we cannot." -Eleanor Roosevelt

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As I sit here feeling the cold breeze blowing, my fingers running threw coats of red fur with a face so gentile looking up towards me.

I imagine what coming back here in a few years will look like.
Would this old broken down stool still be here in the same position I leave it?
Or will everything I know it to be, be nothing but crumpled up dirt laying on the ground like nothing ever happened.

Will the hard work pay off in the end? Or will I abandon the only thing that has kept me going for the past four years.
I love to much, its my character.
Its my best and worst quality. I say worst because when you love to much you get hurt a lot.

These memories will forever stay in my heart.
May God take control, for he knows my fears and worries.

© Brittany U., Terra Alta, WV

The author's comments:
This piece is about a German Shephard named Rocky.
I had to move away and couldn't take him with me, it was difficult.
I rescued Rocky and felt like I was abandoning him.
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Olivia-Atlet ELITE said...
on May. 13 2014 at 6:01 pm
Olivia-Atlet ELITE, Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
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"To these the past hath its phantoms,<br /> More real than solid earth;<br /> And to these death does not mean decay,<br /> But only another birth" <br /> - Isabella Banks

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That was beautiful. :')