“This won’t be a walk in the park.”
My parents said this to me countless times.
You can either make a dime working your butt off
or be the deciding factor to save someone.
You can either pay or play.
Your future is up to you, Ashley.
Four years of high school
will decide what college you get into.
Make sure you take multiple languages.
Make sure you play sports and participate in clubs.
Make sure there is nothing stupid on social media.
Make sure you GPA is outstanding.
Make sure you succeed.
Education is key.
You have to start from the bottom
to realize how hard everyone works.
You might just be a nursing assistant,
but you mean the world to your residents.
Learn to listen to their stories,
their stories will open your eyes to what
the world once was.
Learn that you can truly make a difference
in someone’s life.
Experience is Key.
Being a nurse isn’t just a job.
It’s a life long career that requires
hard work, determination, and most
importantly compassion.
Pay Now, Play Later.
One day, you may be the deciding factor.
Initially the title caught my attention, I love it. This poem is extremely relatable and uses great repetition. I like the commands and stern tone used the 2nd stanza, which provide guidelines to follow when in high school. I also like that the last lines of stanza 2 and 3 correlate. Your structure is really controlled and effectively creates pauses and shifts in tone. Great job.
ReplyDeleteI like how you start each stanza with a general sentence and then you go into detail about the subtopic of the stanza.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely see and hear my mom saying the same things to me. I like how relatable this poem is.
ReplyDeletePowerful ending! I like the repetition here. I would probably take out the quotation marks at the beginning since you quote your parents throughout the poem!
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