December 25, 2010
7:10 p.m.
2010 was the year of
online dating
a new blog
beginning of the end of hope
2010 brought with it
a new home
for half off
and a new TV
2010 was the year of the
nose ring
and the year a
friend lost her ring
(only to find it in
someone else's bed)
2010 gave me
tears and heartache
for a friend
and uncle
2010 was the year
I didn't get married
and the year
she didn't have her baby
2010 was the summer
of broken promises
and loss of innocence
2010 belongs to
Saleem, winter dreams
and Matt, summer romance
and other internet flings
ending in dings
2010 was lonely
2010 was also hopeful
2010 warranted the return
of brotherly love
and completing the unit
2010 gave another road trip
and lush-ious reasons
to be joyful
2010 was the year of
hugging shoe
2010 was the year I went
into the tunnel and
was enveloped in darkness
2010 was the year of commitment
to my book
2010 is the year I made
my first fire in a
fireplace of my own
2010 was yellow and green
2010 was the year of the
Indian summer
2010 gave me a glimpse of
what a true eclipse is
2010 was the year I had
an accident that
ended well
2010 is the year I bought
a dead man's bed
2010 is the year my father
wept for the unwed me
2010 is the year I
felt reckless
2010 is also the year
of confessions
2010 is the year a cut
sounded crazy good
again but only in jest
2010 was the year of loss
but not total
2010 is the year I am glad
to see gone
2010 is the year I hurt my
knee unknowingly
2010 was when a flame burst
forth from what we all
thought was ash
2010 was the year of
disappointing chess moves
2010 was the year I lost
touch with a friend
It's also the year I tried
to get it back
2010 is when I realized I
knew how to play
the game
2010 is the year I realized
I've also lost my youth
2010 is the year I've learned
that it is ironic that one
you have experience, you
can no longer make the
same mistakes, that
knowing what I now know,
I cannot remedy the
past mistakes
2010 was the year that the
me of today did things so
the me of tomorrow wouldn't
have to
2010 was the year work really
began to hurt
2010 was the year of remediation
and lack of meditation
2010 was the year of the
test and retest
2010 was the year of Zain
(both of them)
2010 was Dallas, St. Louis,
Kansas City, Chicago,
D.C., and Los Angeles
2010 was beach time and
Jay Leno
2010 was Glee and Grey
2010 was sunshine and
a dash in sleds
2010 was bridge mending
and burning
2010 was the year of girls
day renewed with polish
and movies and cheesecake
2010 was the year of love
for book of unfaltering
goodness and evil
2010 was the year of purging
and splurging
2010 was the year of the
first teacher prom
2010 was the year of
righteous wrongness
2010 gave me a good few weeks
of desolate isolation
2010 was the year I
kept a secret--
and wished I could've
kept it even from me
2010 was the year of
skin dipping,
chocolatey goodness
2010 was the year the divide
grew on
2010 is the year of yearning
and flirting with emptiness
2010 was the year of bike
riding and a new passion
growing
2010 was the year of the iphone
and a larger bill
2010 was the year of tank tops
and new jeans
2010 was the year of strength
2010 was the year of firsts,
twice over
2010 was the year of netflix
and gmail
2010 was the year of green balloons
and gold ribbon and lights
and help from good friends
2010 was the year of engagement
parties and weddings for
fun and work
2010 was the year of absolving
partnerships
2010 was the year deemed
"over my dead body"
2010 was the year of half our deen
and eharmony and misterandmisses and,
if she'd had her way, Shaadi too
2010 was the year of #2's--
husbands and children
2010 was the birth of water
and the death of pop
2010 was the year of Georgetown
and seniors
2010 was the year of bagel
sandwiches and OKC
2010 was the year of Sarah and Yasmo
2010 was the year of looking in
and other Masjid funness
2010 was Laylatul Qadr
at the Masjid by accident
2010 was IHOP and little brothers
2010 was haunted houses
and ripped flip flops
2010 was mystery men
and canopies
2010 was HeyTell and
iPray and iQuran
2010 was t-shirts--lots
and lots of t-shirts
2010 was two more classes
of future teachers
2010 was phone calls and
evaluations
2010 was Alaskan money
2010 was lock-ins and a hopeful
2010 meant remembering the
leave and cold heaters
2010 was an opening of a
gashing wound I am
constantly trying to heal
2010 brought new shop
and bonding for them
2010 was rats and roaches
2010 was a rekindling of
writing on all surfaces-
napkins, journals,
ticket, receipts, old
agendas, schedules, hands
and jeans
2010 was a broken laptop
(or was that 2009?)
2010 was Obama and
Brittney and Madonna
2010 was the year of discontent
with fast food nothingness
2010 was wheat thins, sandwiches
and chocolate fountains
2010 was remembering how
to almost fall in love
2010 was.
8:08ish (phone dead, lights out)
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