The Very Last
Location
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
-Kahlil Gibran
OPEN THE BOOK OF YOUR LIFE
GO ON,
FLIP ITS PAGES
WHAT STORIES DOES IT TELL?
HOW DOES ITS STORIES BEGIN?
HOW DO THEY END?
WHAT IS WRITTEN IN ITS FIRST PAGES?
WHAT WILL YOU DISCOVER IN ITS VERY LAST PAGES?
WHAT SECRETS DOES IT KEEP
FROM UNWILLING EYES?
DIDN’T YOU KNOW THAT
LIFE IS A BOOK?
DIVIDED INTO CHAPTERS AND PAGES,
INTO AGES AND STAGES?
EVERYTIME WE AGE, WE ENTER A DIFFERENT STAGE
THAN THE ONE BEFORE
NEVER ABLE TO GO BACK.
YOU SEE
BACK IN 2013(IN SEPTEMBER THAT YEAR)
WHEN NEW SCHOOL EXPECTATIONS FILLED THE AIR,
A CHUBBY SCHOOLGIRL
(WHO MEANT WELL)
MADE HER WAY IN
SHE WORE A HUGE GRIN.
OH, THE BLISS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL!
SHE WAS GLAD TO TO BE IN!
HOWEVER,SHE WAS ABOUT TO THE TRUTH OF LIFE
SUBSEQUENT SCHOOLDAYS WERE FILLED WITH HARDWORK AND STRIFE
IN THE EIGHTH GRADE,
THERE CAME THE PAINS AND JOYS
SHE LEARNT TO COPE
WITH UNPREDICTABLE FRIENDS AND BOYS
SHE HAD TO MATURE
THIS WAS A WHOLE NEW STAGE
A NEW LEAF OF LIFE’S PAGE.
FAST FORWARD STILL
OH, WHAT A THRILL!
FOUR YEARS LATER!
OH GOODNESS,
IT IS 2019!
THE VERY LAST STAGE!
SHE IS seventeen and of age!
IN JUNE THAT YEAR,
ONCE MORE, EXPECTATIONS WILL FILL EVERYWHERE!
BUT THIS TIME, LIFE IS ANEW!
WHAT WILL THIS GIRL DO?
CHOICES TO MAKE!
CAREER PATHS TO TAKE!
WHAT WILL I DO?
NOW THAT LIFE IS ANEW?
A NEW STAGE!
A NEW PAGE!
HOW WILL THINGS GO?
WHAT WILL BE WRITTEN IN MY BOOK?
AT THIS STAGE?
WHAT WILL BE THE VERY LAST WORDS
ON THE VERY LAST PAGE
OF THIS CHAPTER
OF MY LIFE?