For Granted

by Megan Aries - Not entered

I can't believe my day is almost over.
I'm sitting in my philosophy class.
My body is begging for a cigarette but
I know that I don't have a lighter and
I don't know anyone well enough to ask 
for one. What a bitch. I wanted to call 
you today just to hear your voice casually
call me babe. I don't think that you take
it the same way I do. People are filing in,
faces young and old, beautiful and plain
all looking at me to anwser the questions
that life asks. After all, this is philosophy.
And we all are looking for something, are we
not? Only one question bounces through my 
head. Are you thinking of me tonight? Do I
monopolize your thoughts as you do mine?
Today I look like an artist. Paint, red paint
to be exact, from painting Dana's front room
stains my shirt that I wore last night and slept 
in and also wore to work today. I must be a bad,
bad girl. No shower, no make up, my long gold
hair portraying the only beauty that graces
my face, fingernails caked with subborn clay I
couldn't remove after I left my studio. How can
I possibly be so many things in one? A girl
with charcoal covered hands, a woman that sits 
in front of a computer all day, a child that
longs to hear voices haunting her from the past,
a person sitting in a classroom waiting for the
learning to begin, a generation X being that 
wonders how she is going to make her rent and 
eat all in the same month. Its funny how we can
take things for granted.
Birth sign: Not entered
Date created: 1999-01-25 23:22:06
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:40:51
Poem ID: 51623

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