Keionna Bailey Assignment 2

Hell and Heaven at the Same Time

 

High School is stressful, fun, depressing, busy, rewarding,
Everyday is the same: learn, work, and test
Everyday we work until our hands bleed and our brains are sore
But for what? This isn't my idea of an eventful life.

We do it for a grade
We do it for college
We do it for a future

I can't say that it's been all work
I have learned to drive, transferred schools
I have joined clubs, met new people,
I have even lost people

Application deadlines, parties, tests, sleepovers
AP Exams but I still manage to travel.

High School drains the energy out of me but it also drives me to do more.

I have shown how I have gone through high school with a community of people with the use of "we" but I have also shown how I have personally struggled and personally had fun. I alluded to the loss of a classmate and friend and the loss of my father. This creates the somber part of my tone. I also mention the stressful and exciting parts of high school through parallel structure. The intended tone of this poem was to show frustration and happiness in one place. Its the place that I dread the most everyday but its the place where I am creating a lifetime of friendships and forwarding future.