FROM A TEEN'S DESK

drained of all emotion
caught in a vacuum,
i lashed out...
at whom?
the retaliation,
I ask myself now.
down I fell
into an abysmal well,
of self-pity,
disillusionment.
but it was only
when i surfaced,
to meet challenges
half-way home,

that I emerged -
all animosity gone,
and well equipped
to go on, and on...