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a sonnet
So, we had to write sonnets for English class. This means they have to be written in iambic pentameter....mine's in the 'English' rhyme scheme. The topic we were given was "the end of high school / beginning of college." I don't like writing in structures...probably because I'm not very good at expressing myself within their limits yet. Anyway, here it is, in all its crappiness:
The time has come to leave your life behind.
It’s time to say goodbye to all you know
to friends, to peers, to rooms, routines that bind....
You pack the things that you love most to go.
No more fake smiles while walking ev’ry day
‘cause no one can use your past to tell
or judge just who they think you are today.
Now all you’ll have is just yourself, and well....
You can’t keep waiting for someone to come
along and tell you how to be yourself.
And now’s the time to know for sure – it’s done.
Allow your ice to melt, and see yourself.
You stand alone – defiantly alone.
The wind, it stings, you’ll make it on your own.
The time has come to leave your life behind.
It’s time to say goodbye to all you know
to friends, to peers, to rooms, routines that bind....
You pack the things that you love most to go.
No more fake smiles while walking ev’ry day
‘cause no one can use your past to tell
or judge just who they think you are today.
Now all you’ll have is just yourself, and well....
You can’t keep waiting for someone to come
along and tell you how to be yourself.
And now’s the time to know for sure – it’s done.
Allow your ice to melt, and see yourself.
You stand alone – defiantly alone.
The wind, it stings, you’ll make it on your own.