Pressures

I came across the dark wood...
My heart longing to be free
Wild
Seek the unknown
Let my hair flow through the uncalled winds
Seek knowledge
Drench myself in the fruits of what there is still yet to be known.
Wanderlust.

Yet I am confined
By societies expectations
By stern voices in my head
By the sweat of hard work
Confined by my own standards.
Confined by what I never had a choice in.

I call out.
Only 16
Whole life ahead of me
either make it
Or break it.

hopes are built high. Up
on cloud nine
Scared
For them to
crash and burn.

K.m.
College anxieties pt.1