Coffee in the Evening
Anonymous
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The three poems that I have chosen to submit deal with nostalgia. As a teenager who lost nearly two years of her life to a quarantine right as I was learning how to be a teenager, memories were all I had to cling to. Despite it being nearly three years since the lock down began, I am still in the habit of living in my memory. Over the summer, I met a boy from my childhood that I had forgotten about. As the summer progressed, my feelings for him did as well. There was no chance at a romantic relationship but we continued a platonic one. These poems were written in emotional spurts of learning to navigate relationships as a teenager. One minute, you have it all: great friends, a wonderful crush, and freedom. Before you blink, all of those things are gone in an instant. I tend to cling to the memorable moments when circumstances flip upside down. There's something incredibly bittersweet in growing up. Being a teenager means posing the two juxtaposing periods of childhood and adulthood and forcing them into one. Each period you spend wishing you were in the other one. Children beg to be adults and adults dream of being children. My work reflects this nostalgia and future nostalgia in a thoughtful way. Typed late at night when an idea of a sentence reaches my mind, may they reach yours in a transforming way.
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Exploring and expressing my creativity gives me an outlet in my life. I began writing to express myself when I was thirteen. In a household where talking was difficult at times, writing poems was easy.
