Tears

Drama

Yelling

Fights

Everything that makes high school, high school

I couldn’t imagine seeing anything different

So I closed my eyes

And closed out the school around me

I couldn’t hear the voices

The fighting

The yelling

Or the Drama

I could hear the love

and the friendship

I saw the friends that I called friends here

but it wasn’t just a select group of people

It was everyone

I saw the teachers smiling

Not the sour looks they gave us

Indicating they didn’t want to be here

I saw the thrive to learn

Nothing that I saw in my real school

I saw love

Compasion

Learning

And leadership

Why couldn’t it be like this here?