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What can stop growing—BOOM!—the storm within?
What can stop growing—BOOM!—the storm within?
Oh, how laughs she make can warm; Her voice such
Breeze by which my heart all sings—enliven;
Her smile the sun post-rain buds soak, seek, touch.
But my every flower, candy, letter,
Sit cold, ignored, as still reject rings clear,
Still I tell her jokes and still forever
Her laughter don’t return; heartbreak’s austere.
There once stood a stream and strong plateau, then,
Rock rocked downstream, currents rolled miles high,
Storms raged, eons ebbed and flowed, ruts dug, when
I cried, why, Nature, canyons must divide?
Yet rejection storms like nature, and thus,
Acceptance paves the only way robust.
Teenagers often have to navigate through many rejections in their lives, whether it be of romantic nature or college admissions. So, I dedicate this sonnet to anyone, especially teenagers, that was once rejected.