I Can't Go To School Today

I can't go to school today.

I haven't thrown up and I don't have a fever.

I haven't fallen out with a friend, and I'm not trying to skip class because I'm lazy or think it's cool.

I don't just want a day off to lay around or watch tv.

I don't want to watch tv.

I don't want to read my book.

I don't want to do my homework or have a shower or cook myself lunch.

I don't know what I want to do.

I don't know what I can do. 

But I just know, in a way I can't describe with words,

In a way I can't write down in poems or stories, that I can't explain what's happening in my head right now.

And I can't explain why, but

I can't go to school today

This poem is about: 
Me

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