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Cassidy Paredes

Bio: Cassidy Paredes recently graduated from Liberty University with a BS in English and Writing. While in college, her passion and love for writing inspired her to publish her two books, Picture Perfect and Even This Will Fade, on Amazon. She is excited to start the next stage of her career with NYCTastemakers and continue growing as a writer and editor.
Poems from Cassidy Paredes

THE NATURE OF LOVE

Love is the best and the worst,The most predictable and unpredictable,The greatest feeling and yet the most disappointing,The limitless and limiting,The most reliable and still uncertain,The thing I want but am so afraid of. But beyond all that, you are the strongest and weakest with it.And I’m afraid of the …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

SORRY

He’s sorry, he pleaded.He’s sorry for the hurt he caused.He’s sorry for the tears he made her shed.He’s sorry for the lost nights of sleep, the long phone calls, the broken communication. He’s sorry, he pleaded.She was sorry too, because one day, this would happen again.And that was something she …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

“Your Name”

Your name is etched on my heart, forever and always.And when you leave, your name will fade. My heart going with it. Ded. To whom I love

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

CASTLE WALLS

I built these walls up for a reason. I built them for you—for only you— Because you’re the only one who could ever get inside. You are the only one who could sneak right past the guards. You are the only one who could make the kingdom of my heart …

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Bio: Taking the World by Storm with his World-Famous Art Collective, TATS CRU

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

STARING BACK

She sits in the mirror, looking wounded. “Get up,” I yell at her. “You were made to be stronger than that.” Her tears began to stream down her face. She was worn and broken, and with each sob, I began to hate her more. “Stop crying,” I reprimanded. “It’s you …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

GO LIVE

“How am I supposed to let go of something I can’t picture myself without? How am I supposed to breathe without my lifeline, preventing me from suffocating? How am I supposed to be me when I was made to be this? This? Was I made to be unhappy? Was I …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

HAPPINESS

Happiness is the smile that comes to wash away the bad day. It’s the small deed that makes all the bad ones forgotten. It’s the hand that guides the lost and forsaken. It’s the light in the fog that covers everything. It’s you, for me, you are my complete and …

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Charles “Charlie” Santoro: “When you love what you’re doing, there’s nothing better than that.”

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

IF I KNEW…

I wish I knew then, what I know now— That gaining you meant losing me. And in the end, I lost both. Nothing to gain besides a million scattered pieces Of who I was and who I now need to be. If I knew then, what I know now— I …

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