What I Know Now

Keys Nicole

Major: College Dropout

Can I say I’m not ready,

Ready to become an adult

Or at least a student?

Responsible for showing up to class

Taking notes and participating

Do the things that’ll help you elevate

To pass and move closer to getting  

That piece of paper

Oh, that piece of paper, I just threw in the trash?

Because I didn’t like how I wrote that sentence

Up late in my dorm room

Trying to finish this paper

Oh, this paper some guy just tried

To pass to me, while at this party

With my roommates, I definitely shouldn’t have came here.

I have to get up early

And I don’t even like parties

How come I didn’t just say no

Like I didn’t say no to my mom

I didn’t say no when she ask me

If I knew what college I wanted to go to.

No I didn’t know

I just knew I wanted to get away to explore

Something new, experience freedom

Freedom to decide to leave or

To tough it out and stay

Why not just stay, get focused

And make my family proud

Dear my melanin sisters..

Be proud in your decision, the decision

To choose the alternative

My happy, that’s my alternative

I can still succeed  by putting

My all into what moves me

What lights that spark within

What do I say to you reading this?

Follow your voice, your passion

Develop a plan and act on it

And find yourself