South Carolina

I left the old me on the South Carolina sand. The naive, sensitive, fragile girl stayed on that land. I signed my life away for a greater good out there. Sacrificed what I was to become someone better. I left that place as someone unrecognizably new. Stronger, braver, not someone easily subdued. South Carolina kept all that I was before. I clawed, and carved away until that wasn’t me anymore. If I went there a piece of clay, I was a slab of marble when I went away. I’ll not forget South Carolina and what I left behind, The battles won and lost are branded inside my mind. South Carolina, South Carolina, I still feel the sun. Though much time has passed and those days are done. I still think of that summer and laugh, smile, and cry. Sometimes it feels like no time has gone by. But I left who I was back in South Carolina, I gave that person up the day I arrived in South Carolina.