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Before I Met You

November 15, 2012
By C.Michelle SILVER, Mount Airy, North Carolina
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." Booker T. Washington

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Before I met you,
Life was dark.
It seemed incomplete—
Not for me.

Before I met you,
I didn’t exist.
No one cared,
I wasn’t even there.

Before I met you,
I didn’t believe in love.
It was something in movies,
Not reality.

Everything changed,
And now I have you.

© Ariel L., New York, NY

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