Poetry

I hear the river running, 

flowing with not a care in the world.

I see the leaves falling to the ground,

a thick carpet on the forest floor.

I feel a light breeze on my skin,

when you first buy a bulletin board,

it is blank.

just a plane of cork

bordered by a wooden frame.

bland, boring, and wholly pure,

it is shaped into art.

it is molded and carved

What is Change?

Well, what type of change?

Physically?

Mentally?

Spiritually?

Idealistically?

People might say it's all the same,

but is it really?

Listen to your mom.
Be a good kid.

Tell your friends you love them.
I wish I had.

Don't be stupid, please.
Moving feels like a lot,
But don't take it out on your dad.
He's going through it, too.

Five-foot-four and
Crashed a soccer career
Too ambitious for her own good.

Lost touch with her friends from school
Didn't make friends after that.

Remembers when she was something
But doesn't have time to reminisce.

Abandon ship,
Jump into mountains,
Skip stones on the River Styx.

Always sans joy,
Nostalgia overcomes hope
Yellow light plays colors on old desks

Every day when I walk home from school
I see a woman with her young son
Asking for money by the road.

I stick my hands in my pocket and
Turn my head away.
There is nothing I can do because
I only have three dollars on me.

I miss when my bedroom walls were purple. 

Cranberry purple, to be specific. 

I was young, 

and moving into my new bedroom 

while my sister stayed in the one next to it. 

Abandoned is worse than alone

it means you had something and it left you

chose to, perhaps

it means you were willingly and knowingly left behind

if you're alone it could be by choice

you're by yourself

I'm a system of equations

and you're my matching set

no answer to the variables

we spend our lives trying to solve

I don't know who I am

I don't know who you are

but I know who we are

the pathways of my mind intersect and wind

curling until they turn to infinite spirals

leading to darkness I couldn't see the end of if I tried.

my mind doesn't listen when I tell it to stop.  

Hey younger me

You're doing great.

I believe in you.

If at this time you feel as though you don't have many friends, that's okay.

You'll get another one soon.