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Idea

November 3, 2023
By 300321 BRONZE, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
300321 BRONZE, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
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Ideas in my mind. 

Ideas floating around. 

Trying to breathe, to reach the surface, 

like a contestant in a competition just trying to win. 

Trying to figure out how to stand out in a pool of submissions. 

Ideas. 

That’s it, a good idea. 

One to win. 

A poem, yes a good poem. 

A poem about what? 

Cars, no, too simple. 

The purpose of life, no, would take too long. 

What then? 

Something that needs to be complicated, 

but not so complicated that it wouldn’t be explainable. 

Nothing in my head,

Thoughts come to a complete halt.

I know exactly what I am looking for,

Yet I have now way of finding it.

A search, never ending.

A search to be the best, to write the best,

To keep up an appearance, to stay on top.

To catch up where you feel behind,

To live up to everything that is expected of you,

To reach, but to fall short again and again and,

To fall.

All of the things in my head, wrapping around and around.

Yet there is still nothing.

Ideas, no, just one.

Idea.


The author's comments:

When deciding to write a piece I have a hard time knowing what to write about, and I am usually certain that I will write a poem because poems are song lyrics and I have a musical mind, but something about this was really just not clicking. I couldn't figure out what to write about, and for whatever reason I decided to just write about what I was thinking. Just like improvising a song, it sort of glides from trying to think of an idea to just trying to be good enough, which I feel is a common occurance in the mind of a high school kid. Pressure is constantly on us to do the best and make sure we are giving everything including all of our time so that we can get into college and get a good degree, but at some point you realize that you lost time to enjoy yourself and enjoy being a kid. This piece is something that encompasses my feelings, like every good song should.


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