Poetry Archive #1: "Escape"

let's delve into my high school feelings...

Aside from school projects, I started writing a little bit of poetry for mysef in a Word documents toward the end of high school. I know, I know—the overdramatic teen cliché. But, I think it’s worth looking back at my writing I otherwise wouldn’t publish and place it here, in context to my life and my writing process then. I’m starting at the beginning of that document with the poem here, and I’ll continue into poetry I wrote as an adult, telling the story of myself along the way.

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“Escape”

The first poem on that Word document is titled “Escape,” and the document’s properties say that the file was created in October 1, 2015—early on in my senior year of high school. I have a pretty clear memory of pulling up this document sitting at my laptop in the living room of my family’s house.