Where’d all the time go

Everything’s happening so fast

Summer is gone this heat won’t last

My homework stacks up

Paper on paper on paper, piling past my head until I’m surrounded in a sea of due dates

Pencils up heads down

Lead tracing the page as my handwriting turns messy and swirly as I try to keep up

Pleading in my head that they won’t change the slide just yet

Just a month ago I turned 16

I thought to myself this is the dream

Laying on the beach

Laughing in the sand

I still have some remnants of tan

As I sit in this classroom

No windows one door

Feeling locked feeling trapped

We’ve all felt it before

As we open our textbooks and summer passes by

As I wait for the weekend

As we try not to cry

From the stress and the pressures

All of them crushing me

I wish I could go back to the beach and the sea

But it’s time to get working

Time to learn more

I raise my hand

Each day like the one before

Where’d all the time go

I’m already so grown

And my days pass on by

So many things are unknown

We hold our heads high

And we smile and we try

As the days and the days keep passing we sigh

We wish for the summer

But we hold on to our friends

Who make us smile when it feels like the world’s about to end

We hold on to our family

Who we barely see

We are like different waves passing each other in the sea

I treasure the days I get to have you with me

So summer is gone

But these people are here

So I hope and I pray for a good sophomore year

That my tests will go well

That my grades will be high

But most of all I hope that I’ll make memories along the ride

I hope that these friends

At least one or two

Will be ones that I’ll keep

When the schooling is through

And the memories of summer

They fade from my head

And I know as time passes they’ll come back again

And we will wonder where the time went

By Emma Botelho ‘28, News Editor

28ebotelho@montroseschool.org