looking back
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Just listen…
Listen to the sounds of nature…
If only I could have…
I remember being so young
All I wanted to do was stay in and play Sonic
Starting from January:
I led
I learned how to be a leader
and how not to be
I spent another Valentine’s day alone….
little girl playing in rain puddles
herding fussy ducklings under rainy sky
raincoat swish-swish
wellies squeak and slurp
hungry beasts
gold hair, bright eyes
clueless and naive.
Textbooks and teachers told me
“Hold on to everything;
Everything you write -
It will turn into something one day”
And one day became overturned boxes
Tossed around my room,
(poems go here) I ate PB&J and cookies and milk and candy on Halloween and hamburgers and hot dogs and not vegetables and cupcakes at Hartney’s party and went to the beach and built sandcastles and moats and walls and holes and skipped rocks a
Catch the moon
Race the sun
It’s all that should be done
With life so short
In a future unwritten
With nothing defined
All is a question
Memories may fade
Reality may fall
After weeks of preparation, finally planned perfection
Invincibility was overwhelming, irrational though it was
The plan
Escape.
The destination
Anywhere but here.
