Faded

I’m going away in the fall, you know, for school. Fourteen hours away. I'm finally doing it.  You always told me I never would, and I always told you you were wrong.

I’ve been going through all my clothes to get them ready, and today I came across your old t-shirt.  It’s the dark red one, the one that always brought out your milk chocolate eyes.  

You must remember when I got it, don’t you?  Do you remember these things like I do?  It was the night that you snuck me in, we left a party and went to your place.  Your parents were downstairs, and I thought we snuck by them, but later I found out they knew the whole time.  You really never were good at keeping secrets. Kind of like your promises.

We were in and out of sleep all night, talking, holding each other, forgetting everything else.  It’s easy to forget the bad things when the stars come out and for once you have somebody beside you through the night, fighting off the darkness with you.

So now your shirt is folded up on my bed, and as I look at the faded writing of its brand name, I realize that the memory of that night has faded just as much.  Still legible, I know the basics of what happened, but what did we say to one another? What had we talked about? How many times did we wake up, and what did your warmth feel like against my skin?

I don’t know.   And I know that I will never be able to remember again.

-doapg

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Reviews

[teengurl]

really nice poem...i really like how it shows that we change...and past kind of fades....even though it might have been super important to us..little by little we forget it. i really love the way you started it and the imagery is superb...i could see a messy room and a girl staring at a faded red t-shirt. very well written...:)

[Princess Poetry]

Wow! You captured the feeling of love and loss. I love how your poem's theme started and ended with that red shirt- Faded in so many ways. Perfect imagery! This is one of my favorites.