Poems From Another Sad Teenager

Mediocre

Really, most of all,
I just want to be good at something.

I don't want to be some
Mediocre nobody my entire life.

I want my poetry to be read,
I want my songs to be heard.

I want people to look
At all of the things that I have done

And say "wow. She's incredible."
"I wish my stuff sounded like that."

And then they would try
And be incredible, too.

I don't know. I guess what I'm saying
Is that I wish to be remembered.

And not just by my family
Not just by my friends.

I want strangers to remember.
I want strangers to care.

And maybe that's a narcissistic
Thing to think and say.

And maybe my dreams are ridiculous
And should be thrown away.

But maybe they're not.
And that's what gives me hope.