Since high school (original Poem)

Hello Everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving! There is so much to give thanks for on this day, and I am so thankful to my family and friends. Below is a poem that I wrote as I thought about all that my best friends and I went through when I was in high school! I am so grateful for them! I hope you enjoy it!

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Since high school…

by Kat Naelle

You know when I was a senior in high school I told myself that I couldn’t wait till I graduated… I told myself that once I graduated I wasn’t going to talk to anyone! I was going to be independent, a new person m, I was going to make new friends, and forget about the old ones.

I told myself that when I entered college I was going to be surrounded by mature, fine men and that these high school boys were nothing!

I told myself that my current friends didn’t care about me and that the friends that I would make in college would be long lasting…

I told myself these things.

I feed into the lies that Hollywood movies showed me…

That high School was a joke and the real work and that my real life would only began once I started college.

Since high school…

I’ve worked hard trying to reconnect with old friends and tried to mend broken friendships that my words had caused.

I tried to reconnect with an old flame that I burnt out because I feed into the lies that “Greek” fed me…

I almost destroyed a path that was already created for me because I wanted to construct my own path that my mere mind couldn’t even fathom.

Since high school,

I begged and prayed to find friends in college, like the friends that I had in high school.

So ironic…

That what I prematurely dropped in high school is what I am desperately looking to find now in my adult age.

Since high school,

My joy and peace are no longer the same…

I’ve searched and tried to find that child like faith that I had within…

And slowly,

As I begged and my groaning in prayer; my God heard my plea and reunited me back with my best girls…

I told them how I missed them so, and this time,

I promise I will NEVER LET THEM GO!

Scriptures:

“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”

Proverbs 18:24 KJV

http://bible.com/1/pro.18.24.kjv

“Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.”

Proverbs 6:3 KJV

http://bible.com/1/pro.6.3.kjv

“A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.”

Proverbs 17:18 KJV

http://bible.com/1/pro.17.18.kjv

“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”

Proverbs 27:17 KJV

http://bible.com/1/pro.27.17.kjv

“Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.”

Proverbs 27:9-10 KJV

http://bible.com/1/pro.27.9-10.kjv