High School

High School



High school is,



Tough,



You work hard only to come back another year for some more BS,



You work SO hard, or youre like me and you dont and struggle in the end,

But no matter what, its tough, grueling, even painful at times,

Hard to keep up with homework, and friends, and clubs, and jobs,

And its all so much you want to rip your hair out,



And just when you decide its okay and you can deal with it,



You have to go somewhere else,



Here is the sum of high school,

4 years, or sometimes less or maybe more, but usually 4,

20,000 homework assignments, all of which seem stupid,

400 stupid dramatic social disasters that no one will care about in 5 years,



6 girlfriends or boyfriends, some cheating, some wishy-washy,

And one very excellent one, who may have gotten away,

12 great teachers, and a few you didnt like but still learned from,

1 poetry class,



Where you discover a voice in yourself that you kept locked away in an itty-bitty box,

4 personal, mind-boggling, and temporary insanity-inducing revelations about yourself,



And a so many memories that youll forget,


And a few youll never be able to shake.

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