The longer I wait.

No more promises to go to bed earlier

No more making up meaning for the mess on the floor,

No more pages all across my desk.

No more of the big clothes to hide what I don't have. 

No more burying myself in those goals I made.

It's all just piling up under me,

Pushing me up toward the sun,

 

And the longer I wait, the more I think it'll go away.

But really, the longer I wait,

The more it gets worse.

wph

VT

16 years old

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    Skate Parks

    1.

    There was this game about a skate park. I think there was also one about a BMX course, but the one that I haunt is the skate park.

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         I am having a dream about the senior class graduating.

         It is a beautiful day

         And I am watching from a hill

         Sobbing as the hats fly off

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    The Samurai

    Japan, 1863. Across the globe, the civil war rages.

    I made the long walk

    Across the plains,

    through the village path

    under the stars.

     

    At long last, I came to the monastery