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From The New World
  All around me
  Are people
  Lost in their own worlds.
  It puzzles me
  How they can forget
  Themselves in those screens.
  But sadly,
  My time here
  Has left me one of them.
  I write this to you
  On tiny keys
  Instead of paper
  Or words on wind.
  This is a weird world
  I thought,
  But now, what
  Am I thinking?
  As I walk,
  Colors line the walls
  But they have faded to gray.
  I have grown jaded
  As I adjusted to this
  New place,
  New time,
  New world.
  I write to you
  With sadness.
  I can’t come home,
  For I fear I would not
  Recognize it.
  This place has changed me
  And I’m not sure whether
  I like it
  Or not.
  Tell them
  That I am on a journey
  To find myself.
  I will see you
  In another life,
  Maybe in a new
  New world.
Goodbye.

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The title of this comes from Dvorak's "New World Symphony," specifically the second movement, a piece I have played multiple times on clarinet and piano. When I wrote this, I was in the middle of student council campaign season, and writing an article for the school newspaper due that afternoon. I actually read a few poems here on Teen Ink, and got inspired.