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Two Different Bonds

March 9, 2016
By meixn BRONZE, St. Peters, Missouri
meixn BRONZE, St. Peters, Missouri
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Warm and safe in the shelter made of cloth,
The weather throws all it’s might yet you're strong and steady.
Like the apparel of a protector or a guard,
The way it makes me look like a totally different being.

It makes me change my mood,
The happy, outgoing me is sealed up once it latches onto my body.
It turns me into this worried, sad and depressed person,
Always shrouds me in sorrow like mist over a forest.

The emotions it puts in me don’t always have negative effects,
It protects me from hate, like a shield protecting the knight.
All the negativity that is thrown my way only bounces off,
Like a boomerang, the problems always come back to haunt me.

It helps me hide how I truly feel inside,
Like a card trick it’s magical how easy it is to hide them.
How odd it is to have so much meaning in one simple piece of clothing,
Yet no one can understand the bond a jacket can have on a person,
And the human bond to a jacket.


The author's comments:

What inspired me to write this piece was the image teenagers make themselves look like in school or in public to make themselves fit in or "look the part" for others to like them. In my case I wear a jacket and have had the same one for all of highschool and I just hope that readers learn from my piece that they are themselves and nobody should hide their true self or try to fake a persona just to be cool.


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