Poetry by Taralyn Southam

I think I had mixed feelings about this poem, but the older I get the more I realize that you are giving so many opportunities that you let pass you by, and then you think that it's all over and nothing can be fixed. Sometimes that is true, but while you're young you have to know that when things get hard you don't just give up, because it's the hard things that make you strong... so never forget that Life can be unfair but it's there, and it's worth living.

To my best and dearest friend Jennifer, love for a friend, so truer words I do not know. Like they say "best friends are sisters that destiny forgot to give you". Stay with me always, and walk along beside me truly.. forever and always, just like you have been for the last 5 years.

I've been through It all, and the only person who was always there was my sister Lacey. I know she was only with me at first because she had to be, but after a while we learned to love each other, and she's never left.

If you've ever been told by someone to forget your past, and that they let it go along time ago, then they're lying whether they know it or they don't.. your past is a piece of you and makes you who you are.