Nostalgia

[sidekick]

digging through old writing on my computer, found this poem i wrote on the last couple days of highschool.



Nostalgia:

How surreal it is to look around
This place where I’ve lived
The last five years
And realize it’s coming to an
End.
I can still remember
My first day:

Sitting on that brown log fence
With shaking hands and sweating palms
Eyes darting, hoping to find
A friends face.
Everyone looks so big
And I am small.

The first exam I took:
Looking down at the scantron sheet
With its thousands of bubbles
Just waiting to be filled
By the tip of my HB pencil.

Auditioning for my first school play:
Sweating and red-faced
Just another nervous kid
Hoping he won’t forget his lines
Flash forward ten months
To a standing ovation as we
Take our bows on closing night.

I remember the morning
Of September eleventh.
All our eyes glued to the TV
Forgetting for the first time
The stereotypes and cliques
That separate us all.

I remember that first summer
That all my friends could drive
Packing our cars and heading out
Along the open raod.
Unrolling the windows
And letting freedom blow through our hair.
Then at the campsite
Standing under the waterfall
My fear of water
Temporarily suspended
As we marvel at the
Strength and beauty of nature
And realize that it was
Here long before us and
Will be here long after too.

October 1st, 2003:
Passing my road test
And finally joining the
Hoards of my peers on the road.

Countless cans of pepsi
Pouring endless amounts
Of money into vending machines
For dinners of sunchips and pop.

The cafeteria:
With it’s low buzz of sound
And the clink of pennies
As they’re flicked across the room
Like tiny U.F.O.’s.

Lining up at the caprice
For the latest movie flick
Trying to hide the bulk candy
Underneath our clothes
As we pretend we’re all 18
Just to see Resident Evil.

Five years of life
Gone in five seconds
Or so it seems to me
Now that I’m done
How many will I see again
How many never ever?
The world has never seemed so scary
But I will always have these memories
Oh yes
I will always have these memories.