Goodbye I guess What more is there to say Farewell See you later Live long and prosper. I think I'll miss this actually I'll miss some of you quite terribly And I will miss each and every one of you at least a little bit. Because thats what you do When people you've known For five whole years of your life, Suddenly just Aren't there anymore You miss them And you know what... that is alright. Because I know we're too old or too cool to really like school And I don't know about you But I'm sorry for me it has just lost the magic. Maybe it has something to do with the amount of Homework we're set. Or maybe its just because unlike primary school You don't have a sand pit. But, I am only sixteen So what do I know. But we should still say goodbye Because what this place has taught us, Goes far beyond just finding X In mathematical equations And yes I might still not know how to calculate titration But far more friendships have been made here Than chemistry sets broken And we've formed bonds, Not just covalently We don't share atoms But we all share similarities And I've learnt right from wrong As well as metaphor from simile I know definition of friendship But I will still forget how to spell necessity I've learnt the truth about equality Not just from R-E or P-C-E But from how I treat Y-O-U and how you treat me Out there on the playground There have been fought more battles Than every single one we're taught about in history But I've learnt how to read the signs Admittedly not always effectively About when its time to shut up Because its often mapped out On peoples faces like geography And I've learnt that the suns gravitational pull Is not the only thing that causes us to revolve Because we spin around each other Not always touching, Not always interacting But for five long years We've spun together And that means something.
I wrote this for my leavers day this year and it was originally entitled 'Goodbye' but then I realised that I'd already written a poem called goodbye and so 'Five Years' was the next best fit. There is also a video of me reading this aloud at my leavers assembly floating around somewhere on youtube, and if you're really determined you could probably find it...