The second half of my high school career was marked by extreme difficulties due to my deteriorating mental health.  I survived this part of my life mainly by writing in order to extricate myself from the loneliness and alienation I was feeling.  During the end of my junior year, the journalism teacher at my high school was kind enough to take a look at some of my “poetry,” and decided to have it published in our school newspaper, The Edison Light. Only seniors at the time were allowed to take journalism and have their work published in the newspaper, and I was still a junior, so to have my work on display felt like a huge accomplishment to me.  I felt as though I had achieved something in such a long time.  It felt great.

So I have decided to go back a few years and post those poems that were published about 3 years ago.  Here they are (there are 5 poems in total, but since I had not put a title to them, it looks jumbled up):