ninestars

a rock sat atop a ledge

on the side of the road,

its home.

sometimes people would

kick it around

on their daily runs

to who knows where,

a frivolous action according to

the little rock.

broke out a pen, not a pencil

i usually use pencils for english homework,

mechanical ones,

teal or purple.

but i guess it's different

with forgotten homework,

either rushed or

completed by chatgpt

I dread going to school every single day.

I hate it,

I hate being trapped there.

But I love being greeted by my best friend

who could make hell

feel as freezing as

these February Maryland mornings.

Hope is often used as a term to wish for something.

But hope is broad.

Vague.

Some people hope to win a sports game.

Or did I just wanna be different?

Like an outcast just wishing,

somebody might notice what's wrong with me.

That she looks like a boy and,

she's playing with knives for toys and,

When you forget what you're doing, when you forgot how it goes.

That's what reminds you that you're

getting older, it

can't outweigh the pain of growing up where

just when you have, had enough is when it