Hollywood High School Poetry Club

I write as if the words were in my veins
I walk as if someone called my name
I hear a snap and think of time
While I sit here without a single dime
Thinking of all my failures
How everyone just became sailors
And sailed away leaving me stranded
Waiting for a single enchantment
Hoping to change my fate
And become the amazing and the great
Though find myself playing solitaire
And seeking a great affair
I watch flames begin and burnout
Although one like you, I've never seen come around
I know that you have not only seen butterflies become bats
But have seen how society hangs their halos and their hats.

- Precelia A.