The Sadness of Outgrowing a Favorite Shirt

By Saywisely

1 min read Nov 20, 2024
The threads are soft, the colors fade,
A hundred memories were made,
Within this worn and fragile seam,
A faded, adolescent dream.

But now the fit is wrong and tight,
A ghost of who I was, held to the light.
And letting go, feels like a tear,
In the fabric of a finished year.

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