Note to Fifteen Year Old Self
Fear breaks
The crack of dawn
Tossing, turning, yearning
Hardly ever learning
People and places
Pasts and problems
Things I’ll never have the answer—
Four
Years.
And I’ll be on my own.
Fight, flight, with all my mite
“Eighteen is the real world.”
—Let down
It’s all the same
When you grow up in the tenth grade
There’s always time to be a—-
Kid.ding, I’m kidding.
Always changing
Endless growing
Love of wisdom.
There’s always more as a sophomore.
Philosophy says,
Fighting the mundane, doesn’t make you any less sane.
Lost in a crowd, alone.
Heard it all before—
It’s okay when you’re fifteen.
A head full of words
Fist full of blank pages
Together we walk, talk
Alone we think
On the brink of something
Good, bad, weak, strong
Worries, words
“Just wondering—
How’s it going to be?”
There’s always going to be
Things
I’m too scared to say.
But every day I wake,
I wake. To give it my all.
And try not too lose it
All. of these years in school.
And yet again,
Today.
A new year breaks.