~Mitchell Ntuen, Class of 2025

I stay motionless in my empty mind,
processing what just happened.

That feeling…it sent waves of heat through my nerves,
a sharp tingle, that over takes my consciousness. 

My nerves stinging from the aftermath of impact,
leaving me in a whole other world of despair…

(Slow down) 
Later on, with unbearable pain.
I sit in a space,

full of both physically and mentally boring activities,
being explained, or done.

(Get louder)
Then it begins.
That longing of being elsewhere….

In my own world
with my own set of pace

According to “MY” own rules.
Then an overflow of questions….(stop)

(Go really fast)
“Only if I didn’t make this decision”

“I have a million other things to fill my day with”
And that’s where they come in,

“Procrastinating, rebelling, idling”.

(Slow down)
But even if all these things happen,
maybe at the wrong times.

And possibly the wrong locations.
What if I let them happen?

What if I didn’t care?
A dawn of reassuring thoughts now begins to flow…..
“I have more to engage myself in later, why bother now?”

Whether it’s to focus during work, or recover from injury,

And it was at that moment i realized,
“It doesn’t matter the circumstances”
“It doesn’t matter the duration”

Endurance will always be the true factor,
For every little bit of patience.