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What are you 2023?
What are you 2023?
Are you just the aftermath of a large live event?
The shadow of a worldwide pandemic?
Are you the healing of the anxiousness we insured?
For me I feel you are some sun after the storm
A calmness after a hurricane
You know how people stole from the restrooms
I never knew how to respond to the chaos
Looking around seeing girls in small tops with lululemon leggings
Others being weird from wearing other things
Being huddled with others like
Like a fish in a small pond never leaving your school
How can you also be so loud?
Protests happening worldwide
While powerful countries are safe watching it go down
People keeping close contact with others through pictures
On an app where you never talk
How can it seem so big and yet so small?
I can go so long with never seeing a friend
As soon as I turn on my phone I am sucked of breathe
I see hate everywhere people somehow divided by one small thing
Are you also free?
Were I have my voice and you have yours
The person with so much talent seen my thousands
Are you the person waiting for another to see you?
The person in the back of the room
I see others laughing and talking all around me
I am sitting with many ‘friends’ I barely talk to
All connected by one thing following each other on their device
I can see everyone in the world from this small thing
I know everything that is going on around me
But it only makes me realize how scary the current world truly is
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This is a Beat/List Poem from my creative writing class. We were given the task of making a poem for 2023 and how it relates to the lives of us, teenagers.