Doubt (Painfully amateur. Made up right on the spot.)

"Oh Lucy! How exciting!" Lydia ran and wrapped me in a hug. The news of my engagement was spreading through my hometown quite quickly.
"I know, I'm so happy!" I smiled and held my hand out to flash the ring one more time, I couldn't help but look at it as well. It was so wonderful to think that I was so in love. I really couldn't stop smiling.
Lydia, ever the romantic, started to pepper me with questions. What was his name? How did we meet? When would I bring him to Austrona, our beautiful hometown?
I laughed. "Slow down, Lydia. His name is Oliver Matthews. I'll tell you how we met later. I'll bring him to Austrona soon."
"Oh fabulous!!! You must come to my party tonight and tell all!" Lydia was begging with her eyes and positively beaming, I just couldn't say no.

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The minute I arrived at the party I was swarmed by well wishers and young girls awaiting my story. I loved telling this story.

"I was at a charitable bazaar. There was dancing of course, I danced with several different gentlemen, but none seemed to sweep me off my feet. After my third or fourth dance I was quite thirsty, as I made my way to the punch table I bumped into him and very nearly fell, but luckily he caught my waist. The minute I looked into his eyes I knew that this man was the man for me and I haven't doubted since."

I finished the story with a smile on my face and some of the girls had tears in their eyes. I laughed at them and asked, "Why on earth are you crying?"

"It's so beautiful Lucy." They replied as they dabbed their eyes.

"Oh come now, I want to hear about you girls. What have I missed?"

All of the girls broke into grins and Lydia spoke for them."Well, there's a new boy in town, he's the cousin of Tristan Redd. We all adore him, he's so dashing!"

"Well he sounds wonderful, will he be here tonight?"

"YES!" Every girl shrieked with excitement and started giggling. I smiled at them, all of this giggling reminded me of our school days.

"What's his name?" I asked.

A deep velvet voice from behind sent my heart into a frantic race said, "Gabriel Tate."

I turned and looked into his handsome chiseled face, his emerald green eyes and for the first time, I doubted......

Farewell Poem

Vivid memories flash through
my mind, it’s so hard to
leave them behind

Your voice continually echoes
inside my brain driving
me to the outskirts
of insane

I know what it is I am
forced to do but I
risk losing the memory
of you

I know that to walk away
I must and the end to our
story, with fate I must trust

So I bid you farewell from my
dreams and my mind and pray that
happiness is all you find

I Love You

I Love you,I always have
always will
when I see you smile at me my
world stands still
I want you to love me more than anything
in the world
I wish that for one second I could be your girl
But I'll wait for our turn
to dance, I know that some day
I'll get my chance
But until then I will
Love you, I always have, I always will

I Remembered

Blocking the pain was supposed to be easy, letting go was supposed to be easy, forgetting was supposed to be easy, and it was until I heard your name, and I remembered how I was the one that knew your schedule, it was easy until I walked into the store and remembered how we would go shopping together, it was easy until I walked past the fountain and remembered how we tried to throw each other in, it was easy until I stood in the pouring rain and remembered how much fun we had splashing through puddles, it was easy until I saw the blue sky and remembered your eyes, it was easy until I saw the stars and remembered how we would take walks late at night.
It was easy until I remembered....then I missed you.

Reasons

Reasons why it would
work and why it won't

Reasons to forget you
and yet something inside
is screaming "Don't!"

Reasons to push you away
Reasons to beg you to stay

Reasons to tell you
Reasons to show you

Reasons to let you know.....

For all these reasons
I can and can't let you go

Untitled

This poem was written by one of my friends and she wishes to remain anonymous
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I've realized that for you
I live

I've realized that for you
I'd die

But I've realized that you
no longer need me and
I say it's okay through a lie

I wish I knew what you
were thinkin

I wish I knew what you felt

I wish I knew how to deal with
this before all the cards were
dealt

I love that we're on the same page

I love that you've made some mistakes

I love that you know what I've been through
down to the littlest heartbreaks.

I like how you have a past even though
you don't like to look back

I know we can get through together
no matter how much we lack

I love all your quirks
all your problems

I like to make them my own

I love how we can sit up all night
and just talk on the phone

But still I wish I knew how to
quit you

I wish I could and it's lame
cause you play around with my
feelings, and my heart's not up for
a game

Without Love

A heart without love
knows no joy, no feeling

A heart without love never
finds itself reeling

Never spins in a world
full of unexpected turns

Never pines, never burns

A heart without love is
empty and hollow void of
any hope for tomorrow

The sun will rise and set the same way, beginning
and ending another bleak day
on a heart without love

Linger

A lingering thought
and I get lost in a
daydream, hope I don't get
caught

A lingering smile
and I let you stay
in my heart for a while

A lingering touch and
I stop breathing, but
then again that doesn't
take much

A lingering kiss?
not yet, but that is
something I don't
intend to miss

Standing at the door
Please just linger a little
longer...

Just Words

Words are just
words but they
cut so deep

Right into
my heart they
seep

But they don't
mean a thing and
they're not
something I can keep

Please don't say things
that lead me to believe anything
more than what you mean

Because your words are just
words and that's all
they'll ever be

I Believe

I believe.
I dream.
I hope.

I believe in miracles
I dream of miracles
I hope for miracles

I believe in peace
I dream of peace
I hope for peace

I believe in happiness
I dream of happiness
I hope for happiness

But most of all

I believe in love
I dream of love
I hope for love

Because love is a miracle
Because there is peace where there is love
and because love brings happiness