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November 27, 2021
By daisy1010 PLATINUM, Northville, Michigan
daisy1010 PLATINUM, Northville, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." - Emily Dickinson


Trains roar around corners,

tumbling into an abyss of metal and wood,

assuming that they will be caught by

the brakes. 


Trains feel no fear of failure;

they are no more self-aware than my 

painted ceramic teapot sitting on the shelf. 


Yet their fearlessness never fails to astound me:

how can one simply leap into life

not knowing whether or not you’ll come back

okay


Anxiety has stolen my brazen youth,

the idea of change cripples my teenage fever


I am no machine,

I cannot dive into the wild without

dreading

dreading

dreading

the change I will inevitably undergo


No one leaves the woods the same


What monster could life make me into?


fear 

my

plunge

into 

the future.



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