This poem was originally written for an ethics class in which the assignment was to write in any form a paper that describes your public philosophy and where it comes from.

This was written at the end of a four-year college relationship as we both went our seperate ways. He was my first love and this was a very difficult situation. I never knew what to say to him so I wrote this, although I never gave it to him.

This poem is about a guy that I met shortly after the end of a long relationship with my first love. I wrote it a year later as I began to appreciate his value for the first time after "getting over" the break-up. Then I realized that from the time I met him he would be the one to make me realize my value.

This poem was written about a guy who came into my life just after I broke up with my first love. Because we started out as friends, my feelings for him developed slowly. So slowly that I didn't realize they were so strong until about a year after we met. We kissed once while were hanging out and then one day I found myself sitting in class and thinking about him. As my thoughts progressed I began to resent him for bringing out feelings in me that I promised myself I wouldn't allow to happen for a long time. Then, I realized he did me favor by allowing me to have feelings again. And by end of the class I had written this poem.