Inspired By Langston Hughes's poem "Theme for English B"
The instructor said

Go home and write

A page tonight

And let that page come out of you

Then it will be true

Can the truth be revealed in a page or two?

Is it something that plausible, or easy to do?

I just turned 18, and lifes gotten tougher

Its not pulling and punches and offering no buffer

It all came so fast, this 18th year

School in the past, my childhood reared

College is next, and I don't know what to be

My mind goes through changes and grows in its incredulity

I know what I want, but not where I want to be

It a lawyer, a counselor or a career in criminology

U feel like I'm thinking too far ahead

So my main focus is on my dream college instead

I'd be wrecked if I couldn't make it to LSU

If I failed to get in, if it was over and blue

Everything I've done would feel like a waste

An irremovable burden, crushing weight

Its alot of stress to take at 18

grades, Sat/Act, and the rest that I've seen

too many concerns when you hit this age

like how to pay for college without a wage

at first I was happy, to finally be legal

til I learned the cost and then felt feeble

no more jokes, and no more jests

the weight is on and its all a test

Is it even possible to mix work and fun?

To spend your days in darkness under the sun?

Will I even Succeed?

Or make a place for me?

Or will I teaste failure as a hobo on the street?

Change is terrifying, and my family is temporary

God chose my path and its lonely and scary

Helps not an option I'm really alone

in the light of day truly on my own

Can I push toward greatness and fill a dream?

Or will life push harder to break me at my beams?

These questions are pointless, and a mental cancer

I'll just go with the flow and hope my questions answered

This is my page for English 4