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Poem written for my "Senior Goodbye" in the Senior Issue of the Cougar Crier, my high school newspaper.

After all is said and done, as the sun sets on this place

I think about everyone, every name and every face

I can’t promise to remember each one through the years

But I do know, for each one, I’ll shed at least one tear

 

I look into the pink sky, watching and waiting for some sign

But no matter how long I stare, all I do is waste my time

But I continue to sit on this knoll, this plush green field called life

Just being there, watching everyone leave; I have no strife

 

My mind is still restless; I can’t believe we leave so soon

People I love surround me, people I don’t know are here too

Some people I can’t bear, a few I can’t leave – but there’s no fight

Why leave? I’ll just stay through the sunset, into the night

 

Well into my sitting and my pondering, I watch as everyone goes

The darkness falls over me, and I’m surrounded by all that I know

The voice deep in my heart, deeper than that which doesn’t want to grieve

Deep down inside is this voice saying “Get up, shake it off, and leave.”

 

I close my eyelids as the tears begin to come like waves off the ocean

But even without sight, I can still sense all the outside commotion

I look up, blinded by a light that wasn’t there before I began my weeping

The pink sky is back, and upwards the sun that just set is creeping

 

I look out over this field, somehow I’ve come to it’s end

But I didn’t want to be here; I wanted to stay with my friends

Then I take a look out farther than I could have seen before

My friends are all moving on, on to some new land to explore

 

“Why? Wait? Where are you going?” I ask frantically, running after

Then I realize the voice deep inside me now uptakes in laughter

So I keep on running, looking forward to this new life in this new land

The sign as I read as I cross the boundary: “Welcome to the world, your now a man.”