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18-year-old Julia Mastorakos, from Hampstead, NH, is a Marketing Communications Advertising Major at Endicott College. Her preferred genre of writing is poetry.

Sand

Julia Mastorakos

I was sand to him

She was the ocean

I was something to for him to play with

Run his fingers through

Letting me fall through the cracks

Simply because I felt warm to him

Never wondering about what’s underneath

Building me into something beautiful

So she could come and knock me down

He wishes I was more of an ocean type

Something stronger

Something beautiful

But I was just sand

Something to be stepped on

Something to live beneath her

That’s why he played with me

— Julia Mastorakos

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