NEW GIRL

Yesterday was just another day,

Forgotten and moved on to a

New brighter day,

Waltzing into the summer bliss

Hoping this time, I won't miss

The second chances that life

Was kind enough to give me.

I have been given some thrilling threats

By my mum

She wants me to chase perfection,

Little does she know that I can

Barely fight my own reflection

In the mirror.

I am still clinging to my flaws,

I can't escape their ghastly jaws.

I like to dream out loud

And then go after them.

Drown into my wanderlust,

All on my own.

I am just like you

I cut and I bleed and I blush easily.

I'm an open book, easy to read, so paper thin.

Tomorrow will come

Words will be said and done,

I am willing to give up

If I get to be immortal

If not,

I just hope that when I take that jump,

I don't feel the fall.

I can't outgrow life, can I?

I just have to move on

Fight harder until I get

What I want from life.

Keep fighting until the very end.

The writer is a grade 12 student of Sunnydale School.