Poem: The First Forty-Five Years (Including Middle School)

The First Forty-Five Years (Including Middle School)

My only mistake
was thinking I could
turn it all around—
that there was a chance
I could keep going
and that if I kept
giving it my best
eventually
it would start to change.

That was not the chase.

Every step was
another misstep.

My only regret
is everything
up to this moment. 

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