For my blog post for this week I thought that I’d post my favorite poem at the moment.
This poem, by Gabriel Gadfly, is not only beautifully written, but also describes how I feel at this point in life. You can relate it to leaving high school. You can relate it to leaving friends behind. You can relate it to leaving past lovers behind. In my case, I relate it to all of those things.
Threads
From time to time,
when you have wandered
away from a person,
you wander a little further
and feel the slightest tug
at your ankle.Looking down, you find
a thread, red or maybe
blue, barely seen,
barely there, tied
gently and trailing
as far back as you
can see and you know,
instinctively, where
it leads.It brings you to a choice:
to take one more step,
snap the thread and
leave it where it lay,
or return from whence
you came.Sometimes, the one’s
the best choice;
sometimes, it’s the other.
Is it not wonderful? Maybe I’m just a complete weirdo that likes poetry, but I can’t help but share it. No others words could possibly describe the way that I feel at this point in life. No matter how much I whine about wanting to leave and am counting down the days, I’m incredibly sad to leave.
I can’t imagine not seeing the few people that I care about every day. I don’t want to leave those who are staying behind and I don’t want to watch the other walk away and never look back. It’s a terrible feeling knowing that things are coming to an end, and you can only sit back and watch.
Well as Dr. Seuss said “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
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