First semester portfolio- favorite piece

My favorite piece that I created was a poem. This poem basically reflects on the ups and downs of life. You know that in life there are ups and downs. This poem is about that, but not entirely. When you read this, there is a part that is about a fork in the path. In this part, the character has a decision to make. It’s not one of those decisions where you have to choose whether you want ice cream of cake. It’s a tough decision that could change a person’s outlook on life (not try to be dramatic or anything to that degree). It could be whether to accept that cigarette that his/her friend gave them. Or whether to let go of a friend. Whatever the reason is they always find that voice. It might be a friend, or maybe it’s yours. Whoever it is be sure to listen. I like it because is like a reflection of my life as well as many others. It just makes you stop and think of if this is your life or not. The idea came to me when I was thinking about
the beginning of the year when our teacher read a poem to us. It was about a girl and her difficulties in life. She also took a path that was bumpy. Here is my poem. I hope you enjoy it. :)

I am the wander
I take this path, you see
I have taken this path all my life
I do not know where I will end
All I know is that the journey is long and tiring
I have full belief in this path, which is my life
It is sunny here and bright
The trees are alive full of happiness and wonder
They stand tall as if they were the mightiest king ruling a region
The flowers greet me with a happy wave of joy
They do not speak but I can sense them talking with the trees
Saying things that no one can understand except for them
The creatures sing a song as a walk right past them
They talk more than they frolic
They jump around my feet but I don’t notice
For my concentration is on something much bigger

There is a fork in my path
A small spacing that separates me from my palace of everlasting joy
I stop and stare at the unfamiliar gap for many seconds
In those seconds I see my life flash before
All the nightmares that were hidden when walking on my path
Seemed to appear when I walk to this strange fork
My curiosity is now running wild like a mustang on an open prairie
I wish so dearly to take the risk but there is a fear deep in my heart that resists the urge
Unexpectedly my curiosity takes the best of me and I have no choice but to take the path

I am a wanderer
I take this path, you see
I have taken this path all my life
I do not know where I will end
All I know is that the journey is long and tiring
My courage and faith in this path fades quickly
It is dark and cold here
The trees are bare and lifeless
And the animals that scurry do not sing but hiss
They hiss terrible things that deal with the horrid side of my past
The road is narrow and rocky
I cannot go back and there is no short-cut
I fear that this choice is one that I will regret
But I must take the path
I walk with nothing but what little belief is left in my bones
Every corner that I turn only leads to a narrower and darker place
I eventually stop and sit on a log
“Where am I”, I whisper to myself
“What is this path making me become?”
“It is not the path’s doing”, says a voice from the distance
but the wanderers.”
“Who are you and how am I supposed to get out of here?” I said in a panicky voice
He chuckled softly
“Trust yourself and you will see that you are destined to be on the path that you are taking.”
“I don’t understand” I said to him
“Trust yourself” said the voice as it drifted off into the distance
I sighed and gave a hopeless look
Then after a few moments I realized what he had said to me
I started to think about the happiest moments of my life
As I thought a light shined dimly in the distance
I stood up and started toward it slowly

I am the wander
I take this path, you see
I have taken this path all my life
I do not know where I will end
All I know is that the journey is not yet over
There is just more “forks” waiting for me
But with my faith in this path
I will conquer them all