Hello Class of 2025
Updated: Feb 26
hello class of 2025
hello class of bleary-eyed scholars
hello class of masked wisdom, of disguised blessings
hello class of unsettling change
the world has asked much of you this year
and it’s no good pretending otherwise
you’ve been thrown upon the cliffs
lovely Andromeda
and i wish i could give you a Perseus
to save you from
a thousand sea monsters nipping at your toes or
perhaps swallowing you whole?
now you have demons you couldn’t even name before
and it seems like everything is
loss, loss, loss
at first you hurled yourself against this acidic existence
and picked off your scabs,
ignoring the new ones forming just
a second later
ignoring your
loss, loss, loss
but what did you gain?
did you gain anything at all?
some simple things?
or lovely things
or horrid things
or an appreciation for the
brutality we exist in
a reality that changes without care
but a reality you can survive
and finally everything became familiar again
strawberries taste like strawberries