A/N: Okay so I went to the poetry slam thing and I didn't recite any poems from this book, I just rapped some TØP. Then after I went up and went back to my seat, I decided to hurriedly write a poem there and then I just immediately went up and did it. It's probably not great (like this entire book oof), but I guess I'll put it in here anyway. Yeet.

Once, all I did was dwell on memories
I clung to them tight, crying, wishing for things that I couldn't accept were long gone
I just wanted the past back
I wasn't thinking about who I could be in the future,
The things I would do,
The people I would meet
It took me so long to accept that what was causing so many tears to fall
Was my refusal to move on,
My unwillingness to let me love myself
But once I opened my eyes
And let optimistic thoughts in,
I realized how happy I could be
And for the first time in so many months,
I felt free within my own mind
My world did not revolve around some boy
Maybe... perhaps instead... maybe a girl could be the one to help me to keep finding the best in myself