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Seniors
I graduated
I graduated High School today
I barely did it.
But I did it.
As a kid
School was fun
No hard homework, projects or presentations.
As a young adult
Going threw changes
Changes that students will soon use to criticize.
Standing behind all the tall kids in school pictures
Being shoved in the hallway
Like one would do with trash.
Going thru four years of High School
I have to use letters to describe the years
Numbers make it look sloppy.
Stripping away one's imagination
Even though in earlier years
That’s all we had.
Losing friends, best friends
Due to society
Making groups and clubs for only certain students.
Separating students because of their ability to
Learn, comprehend, or gather information
Making them look less of a person.
Forced to take classes
That have absolutely nothing to do
With one's future.
Yet
We have to prepare
For the next step of our
Future, our lives, or college as many put it.
Becoming stressed
Because of the work that is thrown at us
So we work after school.
For hours
But we need to obtain at least
eight
Hours of sleep every night.
So we cry in class
Because holding everything in
Becomes to hard.
Now we can only pray
That college
Will be better.
If it’s not
Who knows
If we’ll make it threw.
Were all already trainwrecks.
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I am a senior and heading off to college in the fall of 2019. High School is hard for many people and I feel like many can relate to this poem.