Graduation

04/12/2020 - Poem a Day Compilation



Twenty-three years have passed

Since I graduated from high school

With all the hopes and dreams

Of a teenager who could do it all



I graduated with honours in potential

To which I never lived up

Even though the signs were already there

Flagging where I was really headed



I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders

Bearing down on me alone

My graduation a stark reminder

That I had no one upon whom to lean.



I feel it still, pressing me down

Making me doubt myself in every way

Wondering if it’s all just a nightmare

And I’ve yet to graduate at all.