yesterday, staying up till three

AM, chatting with strangers 

on your phone, binging anime 

movies, you silly girl;

you should have studied 

or slept. but you stayed

up and condemned yourself 

to seven hours

of school day exhaustion;

spending english 

pretending to read othello 

while rushing for science,

getting shameful call-outs 

by teachers 

for sleeping through roll-call.

and you regret everything so much

you write this pitiful sad poem

about regret. 

you know you can’t turn back time, 

and the second-best option

is to wash your feelings away;

if you win something 

like a writing award, you bet

you’ll no longer regret

all the mistakes you’ve 

committed yesterday.