Im ready

I am ready. I see myself in that uniform the fabric pulled tight over my shoulders becoming something someone I’ve only imagined Not the boy in the mirror but the soldier I see in my mind proud, steady, sure of his place I know I’m young they say I don’t understand but I feel it in my bones the pull toward something larger the honor, the belonging to something more than a school more than a neighborhood more than my life I don’t know what’s out there but I know I have to go to find that strength everyone talks about the strength that lives beyond fear