By Seema Khan

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There are a lot of emotions that take place with graduating, these are a mix of mine.

Freshman year,
a fresh start.
Once at the top, 
Now back on the bottom.
Four years felt infinite. 
Sophomore year got shut down. 
Blank screens, 
And two classes a day. 
Junior year, 
Everyone had masks. 
Grades,
grades
and grades. 

Senior year.
Felt bizarre,
I’m in a trance, 
What was once my school,
Is no longer mine.
I am now an alumni. 
How desperately I wanted time to speed up. 
Desperately wanting to move the tassel from right to left. 
I was ready,
Now, 
Feelings aren’t being articulated. 
School started at 9
I always waited for 3:20 to come. 
I waited for the end. 
I am now at the end. 
Someone who was never good at goodbyes, 
has another one to checkoff 
I’m no longer a kid. 
College is next 
and a new chapter is going to be started.

Process

I’m a graduating high school senior, so this piece represents my current set of emotions. Writing this reminded me it’s okay to have a mixture of emotions, to be happy yet be sad. It also made me think more about my future self in college. I had been recently writing down my current thoughts and had parts of it drafted. After rereading my drafts I decided to add more.