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Circle of time

April 1, 2022
By Kaylabiggica GOLD, Greenlawn, New York
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Kaylabiggica GOLD, Greenlawn, New York
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"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."- Sylvia Plath

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Out of all the shapes

Why make a clock a circle

Why make it repeat the same numbers

Why make it repeat the same hours twice

Why make it repeat the same minutes 24 times

 


It just shows

How every day is the same

How fast or slow it goes

How it is just a cycle

That will never break

 


So why make a clock a circle

Maybe just to tell us

How we will never learn

How everything will just repeat

 

 

 

That is why

The clock has to be a circle

To make us try and remember

Even though half the time we forget

So we never learn from our mistakes

So just like a clock it repeats in the same cycle

© Mitra G., Boulder, CO

The author's comments:

Hi my name is Kayla Biggica and I am 15 years old. I wrote this poem about how I always repeat the same mistakes over and over again. 

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Kaylabiggica GOLD said...
on Apr. 6 2022 at 2:29 pm
Kaylabiggica GOLD, Greenlawn, New York
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@swaggyserr omg thank you so much!!!
swaggyserr SILVER said...
on Apr. 5 2022 at 2:38 pm
swaggyserr SILVER, Paris, Tennessee
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This is beautiful Kayla, amazing work. :)