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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.