Making Friends

Six years old

At a playground

Making new friends

Not even caring

To know their names

Seven years old

At the pool

Asking a complete stranger

If you can play with them

Of course you can

Eight years old

Talking to a random kid

Like you’ve known them

All your life

When you’ve just met

Fifteen years old

Sitting with the same people

You have for years

Not daring

To speak to anyone

On the outside

Confined to the illusion

Of content.