Graduation Poem
Numbers I am no expert of all the numbers in the world But for six I am quite certain. Together we start our journey at 12 12: For the number of times you tried to open your locker on the first day of school and for the number of times that you predictably failed. The minutes late you were to class everyday And 12 pounds that your backpack constantly weighed 12 for the number of times your mom asked on the phone when to pick you up and for the 12 times you replied “I don’t know.” 12 times a day you feared that you would bump into an upperclassman while running to lunch Because those were the things we worried about at 12 Next comes the big 1-3 We’re all teenagers and completely untouchable 13 for the number of relationships you went through in a month And for the 13 times your mom told you it was “their loss” 13 friends trying to squeeze at a 12 person lunch table and always feeling like the one left out 13 stories Mr. Knuth would share about hi