English B

My Theme for English B
By: Andrew Alcott
I write this theme in the heart of life.
I am twenty, without anchors and without strife.
I’m not married, no children nor pain.
I suppose I write this theme in vain.


For what it’s worth, life hasn’t been so hard.
I’ve endured and sacrificed and even left scarred.
A testament to which that all that remains.
The emotions left after encounters with pain.

I take out a pen, metronome in mind.
Rewrite my life to paper as the way I want it to be.

In some years from now I want to be able to walk away.
Without repercussion think and say what I need to say.
Change motions, change patterns.
Be warm in winter’s cold.
Remember what was new which will then be so old.

My themes for this course,
The summation of “me”.
Is be much more wiser
And somewhat more free.