Tender Scrawls
Uyen Nguyen
23 April 2002

5
Change
Alters your reality,
Everything you've known,
And chews it in its mouth
To spit out a new concoction.

Nothing lasts,
Everyone should know that,
But we have hope that
With some things, it's possible.

Like love.

When you love, you feel as though
Nothing will ever change:
The way you feel about someone,
The way someone feels about you.
You have a notion that
The two of you can last
In order to prove the neighsayers
Wrong.

But no matter what you try,
You ultimately fail.
And the hardest part is
Realizing that love
Couldn't overcome
The fury of Fate
And Trial.

Now your reality is lost.
Nothing is the same.
Nothing ever will be the same
Amidst the nasty concoction
That Change has given you. *