I’m inundated, like being stuck under a waterfall

Relentless flow of application information

Why can’t this deluge be money?

Applications for colleges, scholarships, volunteering, jobs

Maybe there’s calm in that game app

It’s rarely used for phone calls anyway

Right… poor me… focus please

Sure, I’ll be your caddy for the day!

Yes!  Some time with my friend

Senior year will be tough but fun

I see myself at college but it’s like looking through a distorted, fish-eye lens

Or the beer goggles I wore in health class

Where is the water going?

Is it destined for an eddy?  Am I? 

Circling around on the side – stuck

The big leap into college is 12 months away!

Will it ever get here?

My brother is so frustrated with puberty’s slow entrance

Don’t be in a rush… Now I sound like an adult

But I am!  

But I’m not (quite)

Name, address, coursework, essaaaaaay

Any given summer day

Rushing past me like the waterfall