Mediocreness Poems | Examples

Sixteen Going On Seventeen

sixteen going on seventeen

caught up in her own mind
of fears and dreams
of love and lust
of sex and dreams
with no idea
of her place
or which path

caught up in her mediocreness
of her mediocre talents
of her dreams
of boys and men
of magazines
telling her who to be
what to see
what to write
what to wear

caught up in society's games
of eating disorders
and depression
of rebellion
of responsibility
of anger
of angst

stuck between not caring 
enough
and caring too little
of being herself
or being the person
she has imagined herself to 
be

her only escape
is the poems she 
writes
an the music she 
listens

she tries to talk
to her parents
to her friends
but none take her
seriously

they see her 
as the person she has
pretended to be
she 
was not
mediocre 
at pretending

the person she imagined herself
to be
was the person she actually
became


this 
was a
typical poem
written by a 
typical teenage
girl

sixteen going on seventeen