Dear Madelynn: Do you remember when we met?

I was so nervous with the tiny feeling of fluttering

butterflies in my stomach. Your smile told me

there was nothing left to worry about. Your eyes

showed the desire and love you had for me.

You trusted me from the start and pulled me in

with your charm. Our love was blissful and seemed

to be never-ending. You never cared that you were

my first date,

my first kiss,

my first girlfriend,

and my first love.

The comfort that it gave me was endless knowing

that you accepted me for who I was.

Yet it went downhill from there. The more I learned

the more I couldn’t let go. You wanted me, just me, and

no one else to share our lives with. The seriousness of it then

shows the stupidity of it now. I never cared that you

didn’t want to live here,

didn’t want to continue college,

didn’t want to wear a wedding ring,

and didn’t want to have kids.

One tiny argument stopped all the feelings I had for you.

Do you remember when you broke my heart?

I was so torn that I was sick to my stomach for days

since I never to seemed to be able to let you go.

Your smile made me feel dread and that everything

was always going to be this way. You would never

show me that love you had ever again. I felt the desperation

of your touch but those eyes told me never again would it happen.

Your eyes that once showed the fire of desire

now showed a fire of hate. We were wrong in thinking that

the love we shared was never-ending.

It ended with you in a hospital and me

calling waiting for you to answer.
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Goodbye for now and forever. Your Ex: Andrea.

Writer's Statement: ​I went through a rough patch during my sophomore year of college and this was one of the few pieces I was able to write that helped me through that patch.