A-Level Results
published Anti-Heroin Chic
whether it is on Facebook
in the national or local newspaper
children, well, teenagers
are pictured leaping for joy
as they have received their A-Level results
to be able to get into their first choice university
and i remember –
have many regrets
i am twenty-two
struggling with the basics
it is difficult not to believe
that i am an unemployed loser
with a minimal education
cut short by ill mental health
that was never
diagnosed
in school
i hated life was mapped-
school, college, university
for everybody but me
because even then
i didn’t think my life
was going to go as planned
it is hard not to be bitter
but we all have choices
at some point
you have to make them
and quit blaming
perpetrators and circumstances
you can only be angry for so long
before you become the person
at the end of the bar
bitter, drunk
crunching on pork scratchings
and scowling at the people that dare
laugh, or raise their voice
near you
decide
from now
on in
my life is mine to be controlled.
K.L
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