"untitled" - A life in poems

14.

I would have a stupid question because

I wasn't paying enough attention and they

My lovely classmates,

Would repeat it louder

To laugh at

I don't think they realized

That doing that hurt me

But they did it constantly

Until I figured out how to stop it

How you ask?

I stopped talking.

I stopped making jokes.

I stopped making comments in class.

I became a wallflower,

To the point that I stopped being outgoing in my

School clubs,

Until when I was a senior

No one knew,

And I was forgotten in my

National English Honors Society

Senior Presentation

I was so quiet but

I didn't know anything else

I had resigned myself to stay this way

Because I needed the approval of

My peers

It wasn't until college that I realized who I was

And who I could be

I expected to look back at high school fondly

Because I assumed I was having the time of my life

But

I was so wrong

High school prepared me to be the quiet one forever

And I'm done being the quiet one.