Ellis, Evan

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Cedarville Review Volume 20 Article 1 8-4-2020 To the Girls I Liked in Middle School/To the God I Claim to Love Evan Ellis Cedarville University, Cedarville, evanellis@cedarville.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarvillereview  Part of the Poetry Commons DigitalCommons@Cedarville provides a publication platform for fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the Internet to all users immediately upon publication. However, the opinions and sentiments expressed by the authors of articles published in our journals do not necessarily indicate the endorsement or reflect the views of DigitalCommons@Cedarville, the Centennial Library, or Cedarville University and its employees. The authors are solely responsible for the content of their work. Please address questions to dc@cedarville.edu. Recommended Citation Ellis, Evan (2020) "To the Girls I Liked in Middle School/To the God I Claim to Love," Cedarville Review: Vol. 20 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarvillereview/vol20/iss1/1 To the Girls I Liked in Middle School/To the God I Claim to Love Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This poetry is available in Cedarville Review: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarvillereview/vol20/iss1/1 POETRY | 29TO THE GIRLS I  LIKED IN MIDDLE SCHOOL/TO THE  GOD I CLAIM TO LOVEEVAN ELLIS  You’re so much prettier,                                                                                You look so distant  Your smile brighter,                                                           Your eyes darker      When I’m stressed     I don’t think  When you’re around                                  About your presence.    I don’t speak to you  Because that might                                       If I can help it   Break the illusion.                                So as to avoid      Confronting my wrongs  Is easily put aside                                                   For fear of failure      In your presence      Eternity Feels meaningless.                                                                                       Is terrifyingly close.

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