Samantha McGehee Assignment 2

Where did you go?

Go go go
No no no
Yes maybe no

Laugh
Love
Regrets

No, no regrets,
Mistakes, yes

Lessons
In textbooks
Sure

Lessons
In life
Without a doubt

Laugh
Love
Memories

Friends
Here and there

Friends
In all faces

Heartache
Tears
Mourning
And
Morning came

Not the same

My tone of this piece was supposed to be realistic but positive and the contradictions of the two. Like when it says "yes maybe no" and  contrasts regrets and mistakes, mourning and morning. It also repeats some phrases like "laugh" and "love" and " friends" but varies what context they exist to emphasize that they change. The last line was intended to be an answer to the title by showing that the reality of high school and all its contradictions and changes that we go through result in the fact we are not the same people we were when we entered high school. We can be contradictions to our intended selves and that in and of its self is a reality that we must try to be positive about. The contradictions also show that we don't necessarily know everything we should about ourselves or how high school impacted us.