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burnt out
May 17, 2021
I am sorry to my teachers
And to those who cheered for me on the bleachers
Burning through this path
Using metal, mechanics, and math
But when the world got sick
I lost my engineering fever
My eternal torch
I set on the porch
But the wind blew it out
What else to do but pout
I chose to rest my eyes
And failed to see that life passed me by
© Anonymous
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I was Zain, an adept computer vision programmer on my competitive robotics team.
After COVID hit during my junior year, not long after we came first place in the midwest regional, our season was cut short and our plans for traveling to the world championship were cut off. I lost motivation, and school started to feel like such a drag. Now I am a senior in high school, and although we did have a robotics season, it was a virtual replay of the previous year's game and I didn't really participate. I graduate in a few days and I regret it so much.