None for you guys
None for all the echoes of laughter
That linger like ghost
None for all the memories with y’all
The nights when we watched my favorite movies like Toy story
Or when the Avenger movies would come out
When we would have all the movies
Nights all curled up in a ball
I miss when we would eat out all the time
And just talk so much that the time goes by
So fast
The way our words ran and leaped off our tongue,
Fast, faster, fastest
Like a wind chime in a crazy storm
Time slipping through our hands
Like grains of sand
We would get back home in a dash
After having such a blast
Slamming the door so fast
BOOM!!!
I have no more time, but what is time?
Time is memories and memories are forever.
That will always have a place in my heart
Time is a river that runs till its legs give out
A clock that mocks with its same rhythm,
Tick Tock, Tick tock, tick tock
Whenever I think about the trips we have went on
I think about memories because memories are forever
I have no more time for playing video games
With my brother when he would come back from the military
From shooting inside the video game
And the pixelated victories when all of the battles were fought
With just a controller in our hands
To outside in real life
Now the war isn't pretend.
Now the bullets are real
From joysticks to gunfire, from laughter to silence
It feels like now I am trapped in my own war with myself
I have no more time.
But the beautiful memories still remain
--Auggie L., 9th-12th grade