Sand And Blue Skies

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to Oklahoma University, where you have applied. I want to major in medicine.” I smile slowly as her eyes light up and she hugs me. We fall to the grass and roll around for a bit before we finally notice that the stars have come out.
“Isn’t it beautiful Dorian? So dark and so bright at the same time.”
All I can do is hold onto her until her father comes outside and tells her to go in to the house. She kisses me gently on the cheek as she stand on her toes, and whispers . . .
“ Bye, Dorian.” Before running into the house. She waves from under the porch light before she disappears inside, with the scent of her perfume on my clothes and all over me; I walk the three-mile walk home.



Mama already knew where I was so she doesn’t ask but I know that she doesn’t like it. She says that I should not be wasting my time on Mellissa because she says she is not good enough for me. That is why I hate my mother. She always says that my friends or whomever I hang out with is stupid or dumb. That’s why when I walked into the house tonight, just like any other night, I did not say a word to my mother. I head straight to my fathers old study. It is mine now as man of the house. I have my own room and bathroom to myself . . .
“Dory, Dory c’mere I gotta show you something’. Sean and me was at the river today and we found a frog. He is really really big and green and kinda slimy. His name’s Trudge.
And he hates to be dropped so do not drop him Dory.” Kevin says all of that in the course of forty seconds while digging through his jacket pockets. Finally he hands me “Trudge” who is dead.
“Hey man this guy is dead. You want to bury him?” I give him back the frog and he runs outside.
I sit down and my thoughts go back to Mellissa. . .

A Place In My Heart

There is a place within my heart
Where memories of you lie
A place I visit from time to time
A place that will never die

A place that kno...