Thinking About The Future
I wonder what the world would be like in 10 years
Would it be the same that I do not know
I wonder where I would be in 10 years
Imagining what the future holds is lots of thinking for sure
I heard some people say they are making their our own future
Confused in my mind I don’t know if that is possible
I know I made a mistake but I didn’t chose to be here
To me life is unpredictable also it’s full of surprise
I feel okay about the unpredictable part
But full of surprises is scary sometimes
Cause sometimes things surprise the hell out of you
Like incarceration did to me but I’m not falling down
One day I will surprise life itself by getting out of here
Cause this is not what I want for my future
I just want to be with my family and have a normal life
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My best friend went to prison, ten years ago now. She’s now a mother, wife, employee and a HAPPY person. Your writing’s beautiful. Stick with it, have the DRIVE, and you’ll be a richer person for it. Hell, it sounds like you already are! I hope you get to read this 🙂
Stick with it, the poetry, the ambition, the plans of the future.
You’re not forgotten outside of those walls.
Peace & love from England.
-Katie
It’s absolutely true that you can make your own future. Yes, there are things that you have no power over but you can decide what you’re going to do about it. I’m 24 years old and I have been diagnosed with 3 major illnesses. None of them have a cure. All of them cause a lot of pain, a lot of surgeries, and a lot of hospital visits. I feel like a prisoner in my own body. Before I was sick I was going to college so I could be an English teacher at a community college. Now my body doesn’t work right anymore. I could sit around and let it control me for the rest of my life or I can push myself to make the most of the time I have. That’s what I’ve chosen to do. I’d like to be able to go back to college and finish my degree so I can start teaching but I can’t for right now. What I can do is buy books, or check them out from the library. I’m reading all I can so even though I’m not in college I’m still learning. I’m still working towards my own future by choosing the hard road, by doing what I can do for now to bring myself closer to the future I want for myself. It would be so easy for me to just give up and accept that I can’t change my situation so why try. But that’s not the future I want. Although I don’t know you, I am proud of you because by writing such a great poem you have already decided that you’re not going to take the easy way out. You’re going to do what you can for right now to make a better future for yourself. In my perfect future I would love to be teaching at college and have you for a student. If I saw the poem you just wrote in my class I’d be giving it an A+.
Wow. This is one of the strongest poems I’ve read in awhile. I really liked it! I felt like I could really hear your voice coming through in the poem. I really enjoyed the use of internal rhyme within the lines.
Keep your head up and your pen down on the page.