Me Died Blue
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Here is a Shakespearean-style sonnet I wrote in 2000 (eighth grade), entitled "My Destiny":
"I came upon a place which I did see,
A place with much intriguing light it was.
I came because I thought it was for me;
I sought a destiny as each soul does.
With scorn and hate I was cast out of it,
As if I had no true techniques for such.
At me was hurled a very careless hit,
But there was still a jewel I wished to clutch.
I started searching for another dream,
A dream that would fulfill my place in life.
But I could not find any worthy theme
Which would give me a single thing but strife.
I then discovered something I still own:
'Twas that I cannot find my place alone."
"I came upon a place which I did see,
A place with much intriguing light it was.
I came because I thought it was for me;
I sought a destiny as each soul does.
With scorn and hate I was cast out of it,
As if I had no true techniques for such.
At me was hurled a very careless hit,
But there was still a jewel I wished to clutch.
I started searching for another dream,
A dream that would fulfill my place in life.
But I could not find any worthy theme
Which would give me a single thing but strife.
I then discovered something I still own:
'Twas that I cannot find my place alone."
