Falling

I am falling down

further

and further

faster

and faster

the school year is almost over-

hooray, summer-

but all of a sudden

reality crashes down on me

as powerful as a tidal wave

and I find myself

drowning

in work

dripping in panic

stress

as I struggle to fight my way back up

back towards the sunlight

but what if I don't finish in time?

What if I get a bad grade on all of my work because I was rushed

told to write an essay

but given too little time?

I have just been given projects

but they are overdue already?

The timing is off on everything

summer is falling up

and I am falling down to meet it.

I don't necessarily want to reach it

but I don't want to be falling in this endless in-between of a world

bound by time

but shattered by it, too?

Calico Frost

VT

13 years old

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