life and college

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(poems go here) Stress takes over my life
My last two years of high school went from the best time of my life
To the most stressful period of time I have encountered.
I wake up, go to school and put on a show.
I play the leading role in the story of my life.
The writer…. High School.
The screaming, nagging, stress, breaks you down every day.
Where parents push for you when you have no clue what you want, then give up and stop believing.
If I had a scholarship for every time I was broken to tears from the stress,
I could go to Harvard on a full ride and finally make someone proud.
But four months ago I was oblivious…
Expecting scholarships to pour in and colleges to want me based on
My outstanding ability to procrastinate, and care for nothing.
It was till now that I gave up.
I believed that I wasn’t good enough, I would get into community college
And work a basic office job, going through the motions.
I realized my greater potential.
It is now that I realize the stress, the broken and lingering faith
To still succeed.
The stress and anger overcome me and drive me to stop,
But the need for a happy life keeps my dreams beating.
I was ready to give up, expecting nothing of myself.
Colleges would look past an average to below average student
With no ambitions or sense of want.
But it is my need that keeps me going and I sit at
This keyboard, trying to make something of myself.
This is only a year out of my life and I now fully realize the effect it has.
College can break you down, stress can make you stop,
But it is those that can persevere and break through
That will be noticed and make something of themselves.
I will be noticed.

Comments

knightring

I am a junior in High School and have recently been effected by the true stresses of college. This Poem represents my stress.

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