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They Want to Live

June 3, 2016
By garciagabe BRONZE, Harleysville, Pennsylvania
garciagabe BRONZE, Harleysville, Pennsylvania
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Energy emits from the single open door
Step by step the murmur turns to a roar
Beats and bodily motion steal the show
College kids flood the dance area and move with the flow

Parties and tradition run the home of glory
Relationships form between some good,
Young, adult men who share their life story
Greek letters tie the knot of brotherhood

Pathetic underclassmen try to get a female for the night
Veteran brothers send solid, one sentence pick-up lines
Atmosphere booming, lively lights shine bright
Minds off the education, no teachers asking for cosines

Leading girls to the kitchen, that nasty and revolting kitchen
Conversation fills the air as sketchy fluids fill the sink
Leftover results from a drunken guest who was wishin’
He would’ve thought twice about his additional underage drink

New, short friendships spring up out of nowhere
Two counterparts relocate to the second level of the house
Sound still deafening as the volume of rock bass blares
Another teenage crowd stares at the last blind mouse

The skinny blonde boy is cautioned, but his head is insanely impaired
Two stories from the street, however he is not scared
He jumps off the windowsill and the happy crowd turns pissed
Cause the next morning the small child only has a broken wrist

And here the troubled, dreamer college kids are explained
Escaping reality and debt by consuming alcohol
Being let into a cruel and unfair world leaves them pained
In these uncontrolled nights, they see a future, and not a fall


The author's comments:

Most of my thoughts involve the future, so I wrote this piece about a college party. I wanted it to express the life that comes with college, since it is the first taste of freedom for teenagers. 


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