Dear emotions and society

Twenty

I can still feel it.

The tears dripping down my face.

Why did you have to taken from me?

Best friends, weren't we?

Me, you, and him.

We couldn't be separated.

Come knocking on the patio door

I would still open it for you anytime

Anytime that you need me, just call me.

It doesn't matter if you're on the other side of the world

I'll go there for you

You would always make me smile

We couldn't stay mad at each other for long.

And the day I had to leave you

Was the day when everything started going wrong.

Stripped from you, I didn't even have a clue.

I was so unaware, it happened so quickly

And yet it didn't.

It happened so slow. Like a band aid being pulled off slowly.

I'll never forget.

Have you forgotten me?

That's okay. I left things behind for you, but if you still forgot me

It's okay. I'll cherish the memories.

Even if you didn't.

Do you remember when you came back from Mexico and I started running to your side of the apartments?

And we were running towards each other, ending up in a hug that was full of laughter and full of I missed you's?

God. We probably looked like young love.

But do you remember it?

Because I do.

And I still feel bad because we would ignore your little brother

We would go into our own little world

Dancing in the rain, wishing it would rain harder

I would do anything

Just to go back to those small apartments

Where in the summer you would always come knocking

And I would die of boredom during the school year

I was home schooled

You were not

4:30 PM

Your homework done, my knock on your patio door.

Your mother smiling at me and welcoming me in

I would love to go back.

But those times have been washed away with the rain