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At The End

Submitted by Kenobi15 on July 16, 2008 - 13:17.

At the end

By Noah Detzer
Hartford High School, Grade 12

So soon it ends
in one year
everything will change.
everything.

All will leave
Some will succeed.
Some will fail.
Some will be left behind.
Some I may cross paths with
but
All will leave.

In a sense
it's a reboot.
a new beginning.
a success.
a new way of living.
the first day of the rest of your life.
so they say often
repeating it as though it is law.

Some parts are good
leaving behind
the fake,
the plastic,
the insecure,
the immature.

Yet some are far worse
leaving the best friends
the ones who really mattered
the ones you love
for a new life somewhere else.

At the end
all of the struggles,
the successes,
the pain,
the sorrow,
the sadness,
is rendered moot.

At the end
everything changes.

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Comment from Junie

Submitted by junie138 on July 29, 2008 - 11:01.

Wow, you did a great job of expressing your feeling about leaving high school. I like how you give the possiblities of changes and things that you with leave behind. It remind me of the time when I leave kindergraden. Suggestion: for different standanza you should keep the same amount of lines. It will make the poem constant and neat.
GREAT JOB, keep it UP^_^V

I know how you feel

Submitted by ashleighmcd on September 9, 2008 - 20:39.

I really enjoyed reading this piece because I could relate to it very well. I graduated high school 2 years ago and I experienced those same things. I look at it as once I graduate its a new beginning, exactly what you said.

"it's a reboot.
a new beginning.
a success.
a new way of living.
the first day of the rest of your life."

I love this part because I believe this is so true. High school is one part of your life and college or whatever happens after is like chapter 2, or as you put it, "the first day of the rest of your life". I've had to learn the hard way and have experienced the loss of great friendship but I guess everyone changes and goes there different ways. It's part of life I guess.

But overall I just really enjoyed reading this because I could relate to it so well. You did a great job with spelling and punctuation. I think this was put together very well. It was almost exactly what I experienced graduating high school. Keep up the good work and I am looking forward to reading more pieces of your work.

Ashleigh McDonough
Castleton State College

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