I get asked

At least twice a day

Sometimes three

If I even care about school anymore

Because I skip class

I’m irresponsible

And apparently I have an attitude problem

I care about a lot of things

My friends, my family

Music

Poetry

I am so passionate about life in general

We are young

We have just reached the edge

In which we jump off of

To reach the peak of our life’s

The world is at the palm of our hands

Easily taken by every single one of us

With the flick of the wrist

The world is at our feet

We step on the same Earth

As six billion other people

We walk on the same planet

But every single one of us are understanding it differently

This world is filled with so many things

We have yet to experience

Smells and tastes and feeling and emotions

Foreign to us but equally as fierce as they run through our veins

The world is amazing!

Every time I feel

Like I finally have the ability to run

To scream and shout and dance and laugh

To go off into the world

Grab it by the shoulders and shake it

Until I know every one of its secrets

I feel someone grab me by the scruff of my neck

And yank me back into a desk

To sit quietly with my hands folded neatly on my lap

As I listen to a teacher blather on about mediocracies

As we wait for the next standardized test

I care

About so many things

School is not one of them