The inevitable Reality

It’s the first big step in the direction of your life path.

If it’s so important how can I be so torn?

One second hating school and begging for college,

Then feeling lonely the next, just thinking about leaving everyone.

The numbers precariously grow smaller,

Invisibly counting down the days.

It will be creating lifelong friends in college that I am looking forward to most,

While losing touch with the ones I already have causes sadness.

We will be set free from the bars of SPA that protect us from the real world,

And then realize that we don’t want to leave.

It’ll be Purging the nest that will be the hardest.

Leaving the same house I’ve been in for fifteen years,

No longer having seemingly infinite resources,

Not having a purring kitty greet me every day after school

And not seeing the people and teachers I see every day at school.

That’ll be the hardest.

Yet it is an inevitable reality, coming for us all.

We have just months left to prepare for the real world,

And all that hardships, joy, sadness, and disappointment that make up life,

Will be waiting for us to turn onto Randolph avenue on June 8^th, college bound.