High school optimism
Auditorium curriculum
Pressed into our heads like wet clay
The world in front, nothing but green grass
Below us, what on earth could stop us?
Hearts beat like that time Jake put adderall in our Redbulls
We laughed it off, and talked about who
We wanted to be in 5 years
What we did not
Until the sun came up
Every body had a plan
and my chest filled with bees
I started to think about leaving
I walked 12 miles before I realized I was scared
I ended up at the beach
Sea foam etched mandalas in the sand
Like when I was 17 and thought I had a plan,
it made this wall as if to shield
The pebbles on the bank from drowning