Growing Up

Morgan Hannah
Life & Style Editor

 

The struggle to fight my nerves

To not spin out of control

The struggle to fight my fears

And still take risks to feed my soul

The energy that builds up inside me

Like a spring sitting underneath my skin
The energy that prickles and pokes around
Souring who | am like an off-brand gin

It’s change that causes so much angst

It’s the unknown that breeds a darker side of me
When I'd much rather be happy and lighthearted
When I'd much rather bumble like a bee

Why does a challenge change who I am?

Takes the soft sides and soaks them in kerosene

I revert to a younger and more dangerous self

Like an unspooled sack of blood, heart, and tyrosine

But take those risks I must

For life is never full if I’m always comfortable
And yet comfort doesn’t quite feel so bad

It’s just, I was told it isn't acceptable.

 

 

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Wllustration)By Sonam Kaloti

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Farther
Away

Sonam Kaloti
Arts Editor

Illustration by Morgan Hannah

 

Say it’s anything but a break

but I know what your heart wants.
I'm hurting and I’m awake
wanting another response.

Conditioned

to give the world to you
I had no fear.
Submission.

This little boat of ours
I cannot steer.

We're paddling farther away
from this island,

our island.

I was hoping that you would stay

but I can't keep hoping when there’s nothing

here for you.

This is the ending and we both know

were paddling farther away,
but I was hoping you would stay.