Poem

“Today is the day to start. Realize that you are not forever. Begin today.”


– Anonymous quote on a bathroom stall



Phrases scrawled on a bathroom stall

Holy scriptures of adolescence

Psalms of hormone-driven emotion

Etched in pencil

Or pink or black marker

I love so and so

Inscriptions of hope

Love not war

An occasional cruel word

The tribulations and triumphs

Of the teenage soul

Impassioned phrases

Seeming so insignificant

Meaning so much

Behind each of these statements

Lies a poem unwritten