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Extreme Senioritis

I walk in and immediately,
I’m suffocating.
Swarmed by fake people
And fake greetings,
Tan walls with nothing more to offer
Than a blank white board.
I’m forced to sit and listen
To these adults 
Who don’t want to teach
Any more than I want to learn.

This place has no left for me.
I know what my future holds.
I can figure things out on my own.
Give me the cap,
Give me the gown,
Give me the diploma,
Get me out of this hell-hole
Where all people care about
Is their reputation
Or if they’re getting asked to the dance.
Get me away from the fake
And throw me into the real.
I crave an adventure so big,
It lasts a lifetime.

Let me out of this death trap.
I want a new start.
New place,
New people,
New clothes,
New me.
I can’t keep looking at the same faces,
Listening to the same drama,
And solving the same problems 
Over and over again.
I need a change.
This year,
This last and final year,
Cannot move fast enough.

As soon as graduation is over,
45 days from now,
You can bet you’ll never see me
Or hear from me again.
I’ll be gone before you can even
Ask me for a picture.

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The First I Love You

It’s old,
It’s cliché.
It’s overused,
And therefore,
Underappreciated.
But that doesn’t mean
It’s not true.
And so,
From the bottom of my heart,
I love you.
I love you so much.
I trust you with my life.
I would do anything for you
And I’m definitely
Not going to leave you.
I’m going to be here with you 
Through everything
Because you give me a feeling
That no one else can.
You make my heart light up
And my eyes skip.
You confuse my feelings 
Until I'm filled with nothing
But love for you.
Your touch is exhilarating,
Your smile is intoxicating.
I find everything I need
In your love.

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The Biggest Fan

Your white minivan isn’t much,
But it’s enough
To get us where we want to go
Or take us down some road we don’t even know.
I love taking car rides with you
And finding some good music to jam out to.
Even if we don’t know the song,
We still try to sing along.
It’s the perfect escape,
Even though the mirror could use a little bit of tape.
Being there with you makes my heart jump,
And same with every time we hit a bump.

You always have fun things in there
Like a soccer ball, a longboard, and some shades to wear.
In the back, there are no seats,
Just maybe a couple of sheets.
“Good for sitting on at the drive in,” you said.
I almost did drop dead
At the thought of us
At the drive in together with no fuss.
See, I love that little, beat-up old van.
I might even be its biggest fan.

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And Then There Was You

I was going to wait
Because that’s what I was taught.
But then you came along.
You made me feel safe
And special.
You made me want to do things
I’ve never done before.
I wanted you to know that
I trust you completely.
I wanted to give you
My everything.

You seemed excited
When I finally told you
I would do it.
I was terrified
But willing to make this sacrifice
For you.
October 8, 2016.
That’s the night.
It didn’t hurt as bad
As they said it would.
It felt wonderful.
It was pleasurable,
It was magnificent.
It made me blossom
Into a new me,
An experienced me.
And I didn’t even mind
That I had just committed
One of the most awful sins
With you.

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Memory Thunders

She's the girl with no friends,
The one you made fun of for having split ends
When she used her haircut money
To buy something for her sonny
Because she loves him with all her heart,
Even if having him wasn't her favorite part.

He wasn't even part of her plan,
Just the result of some man
Who thought it would be okay
To take advantage of the poor girl in May.
The man told her not to yell or run,
That it was going to be fun.
But as much as she kicked and screamed,
She still ended up with crushed dreams.

He broke her mind,
Tore it in half. Now she's even scared of the kind;
The caring people she could trust the most
Have now just become ghosts
In her past and she wonders
Through all of the memory thunders
When will she be alright again?
She still cries every now and then.

She just wants to be a normal kid
But he did what he did.
So instead she's the one with the stroller who gets
Disapproving looks from unknowing mother without regrets
Who made a big decision on their own
When hers was more like a combat zone.

She can't help who she is or what happened
Even if it wasn't anything she could've imagined.
Her life in now a wreck
And nothing is in check
But she smiles anyways
Because the sun still sends down rays
And she knows she will survive 
Now that the man is no longer alive.

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I Forgive You

I hate you.
I hate everything about you.
No… 
I wish.
I wish I hated you.
I wish I had no soul,
No feelings.
Because then, it wouldn’t hurt so bad. 
But I do have a soul,
My feelings are strong,
And I have a heart.
And it’s filled with so much
Kindness and so much love
For you.
So,
I forgive you.
I forgive you for lying,
For drinking.
For cheating,
For spying.
I forgive you 
For every bad thing
You’ve ever done
Because that’s what you do
When you love someone
With every inch of your being.

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The Sorry's End Here

All I’ve ever done
Is apologize.
I apologize for me
And who I am.	
I apologize for my beliefs,
My personality,
My likes.
And I especially apologize 
For you.
Enough is enough.

I’m not sorry.
Not anymore.
Not like I used to be.
I’m done apologizing
For your mistakes.
I’m done feeling sorry for you
When you’re the one
Who’s hurting me. 
Just because you have a hard life
Doesn’t give you the right
To take it all out
On me.
I don’t deserve that.
I have a hard life, too. 
You know I do.
I struggle with school, too.
We all do.
And yet, I still put your feelings first.
That’s not how it should be.
It should be me and you
Not you and me.
I need to start taking care
Of me.
I need to lookout 
For myself.

And so, from here on out,
I’m going to start loving me more
And start loving you less.
No more apologizing for me.
No more apologizing for you.
The sorry’s end here.

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I Shouldn'T Have To Give You This Spiel

Sometimes, you make me feel like I’m not good enough.
And that’s tough.
Especially when I give you all my love
And all you give me is a shove.
You push me away
When I have something to say
Because it isn’t what you want to hear.
Then, I start to tear.
You want me to do things I’ve never done before
But that would make me feel like a whore.
You can’t force me to do it
So please just quit.

I say I love you
But you don’t say it too.
You say no instead
As if it’s all in my head.
My love for you is real
I shouldn’t have to give you this spiel.
Do you really not believe me?
Can you really not see?
My feelings for you are strong,
I thought you knew that all along.
I thought I was making myself clear
When I would always smile from ear to ear
Because you brought me joy.

You were my little drummer boy
But now I see
The girl you want isn’t me.
You need someone who isn’t afraid to talk,
Someone as solid as a rock.
Someone who isn’t new to this game,
Someone who is tame.
Someone to give all the blame,
Someone who will take your last name.
The girl you need might be out there
And I hope you find her somewhere,
But, to make things fair
And square,
I’m going to find someone new too
And I promise, he’ll be nothing like you.

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10-29-2015

Cold,
Cold and dry,
Very dry.
But peaceful.
Calm and still,
With only the sound of the waves.
Extravagant colors were all around.
Green, yellow, orange,
And red.
Red berries, red leaves, red rocks,
Red water.
Red eyes, red face,
Red wrist.
It was so easy
And yet, so wrong.
And then the tears flowed
When her red eyes met her red stained blade.

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The Creatures

They tantalize and tease me,
They won't let me be.
Every time I get rid of one,
A new one comes in and I want to run.
But that's not what I do.
I stay, and I like it too
For a while 
Until I lose my smile
And these things bring out their claws
And point out all my flaws.
My heart falls completely out of my chest
And I can no longer get any rest.
They stick out their fangs
Until my head just hangs,
Completely defeated,
Terribly mistreated.
These cruel things just take my happiness
And leave with no regrets or sadness.
I'm left all alone,
It's the coldest feeling I've ever known.
And who are these awful creatures?
These things with the worst of features,
The ability to lie and hurt with no remorse.
Boys, of course.