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.
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.