New Shores
i never thought that it would come but
here's to another year
I watch from the shores of adolescence as I watch the waves tear into people fighting against their own flesh, drowning in the purpose of life
something I never cared for before but now I wonder why
as I watch the water running over their scars and the sun glistening and beating on their skin
I watch from ashore as they race towards an island that doesn't exist past tv screens
and so I think at this age, I realized, life is what you make of it
it's what you dream
