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Time Travel

October 18, 2021
By seika_poetry SILVER, Pomona, California
seika_poetry SILVER, Pomona, California
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leave the world behind.

be

in a new dimension;

in another time.

 


create your own reality—

how desperate i want

to escape mine.

forget.

 


i confuse anger

with jealousy.

my feelings cloud my mind.

forget.

 


i thought i was fine.

content and satisfied.

what’s enough, anymore?

forget.

 


i’m trapped in the past.

stop haunting my dreams.

get out of my head!

forget.

 


i am the same person.

only yearning to go

to a new place, to new people.

forget.

 


i wish to be alone in my thoughts,

but i don’t like to be lonely.

get out of my head!

forget.

 


starved with unrelenting

desires,

what’s enough, anymore?

forget.

 


unwelcome in my heart,

so why still here?

my feelings cloud my mind.

forget.

 


how ironic.

life won’t wait for me

to escape mine.

forget.

 


but no matter how hard

i plead and cry, i just can’t.

maybe, just maybe—

in another time.


The author's comments:

I wrote this with my past in mind. There are plenty of emotions that flood my head when I think of the past, be it the bittersweet, the painful, or the overall nostalgic feeling. And this is about how sometimes I'd rather feel numb than to have these memories resurface and feel the sadness behind each story.


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