Here he is, he covers the surprise
Don't look, close your eyes!
Sealing the secret away until the best part
What is it? I can't wait, hurry, let's start!

The girl looks down, and grins with excitement
She's ripped him, he's gone, dead, in a swift moment
The prize is revealed to her (it's cash!)
And he, the wrapping paper, is thrown into the trash.

Expectations

I can never meet them
                   They're too high

        Spoonfuls of dreams
        Shoved down my throat
        For as long as it takes them to stick
        It won't work

No breaks

AP classes
         Yale
              Harvard
                  Stanford
                       A+

                  Repeating classes
              Failure
          Disappointment
      Unac­ceptable
  F-

Can I please have a second to relax?

NO.
Keep working
You will be a star

I don't want to be.*
I can't be.
I'm too stupid.

Short Poems
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I dressed up one day
As best I could
Hoping you would say
That I looked good

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There is someone tapping at your window, sometime soon
But you will look outside at night and see only the moon

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Hope is impossible in this world of despair
Infinitely standing in the darkest of glares

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My lungs
They're made of metal
Artificial
Weak
Wailing

My heart
Is full of stitches
Broken
Irreparable
Failing

My mind
Filled with holes
Present, past, and future
Muddled
Troublesome
Ailing

You can help me?
Please
You're not
Who I'm looking for
And so
I keep
Sailing

The careless goodnight
The wave of a hand
The step into the real world
The step out of wonderland
The echoing dream
The wrinkles unseen

The projects incomplete
The taste of defeat
The linger of spark
The cloak of the dark
The final goodbye
The time for us to fly