Sentimentality

Sentimentality

all the time

wishing to be younger

to be somewhere else.

I wish that I was in fourth grade again

and everyone was friends

and everyone was happy and content

and I wish I was three years old again

and it was only me and my parents

and the only thing that I worried about was whether or not I'd get myself stuck in a seat belt again

or if I'd run out of trail mix

or if there would be another lizard in my room again.

I wish that life was less complicated

that we weren't the dominant species

that life was just eat, hunt, sleep.

I wish to be in third grade again

being introduced to poetry and online writing

reading books online with my camera off while we were having group discussions

reading The Wild Robot and Stone Fox

crying when the dog dies

listening to classmates share weird dreams

connecting and having fun.

Sentimentality

is something that I will always have.