Struggling

Authors Note: Are any of you out there worried about where you will be in 10 years? Of course not! We are young! We are curious and crazy! But for me, there has always been that fact in the back of my mind that whatever we do WILL affect our futures. So this thought deserves a poem.

I never have crazy ideas.
I ruin dreams, I crush feelings.

No explosives on school property
Too much homework
These aren't excuses, but facts

I try to be polite,
Common sense takes over my brain.
My creative personality falls unconscious.

I apologize to any of you who have questioned my voice of reason.

A little fun never hurt anyone, right?
Some people remember the lectures we were given when we messed up.

Have you ever heard of a six month plan,
Meant to give kids a better future?
Sounds positive,
Extremely well thought out

I do not blog about such things.
I blog negatively.

There is a flaw
Which shatters the plan;

One police record
Completely failed report card
Or missed goal on your soccer team.
Leads to a failure of the acclaimed sixth month plan.

Truth comes out,
As it always does.
We shape our future when we are young and foolish.

Why do you read my posts?
This one is getting much too long,
You could be studying for important tests
or impressing your language arts teacher.

We shape our lives like clay
in an art room.
A dent in the clay,
Stays in the clay.
We cannot change what we've done.
The clay cannot be fixed.

If I crushed the feelings
That you woke up with
Happy
Secure

I apologize.

If you are looking for happy posts,
do not keep reading,
you will find none here.


Go to Natalie's Blog, Kati's Blog, Brett's Blog, or Xavier's blog, for happy stories. Ask me tomorrow and maybe I will be a completely different person.