I wrote this piece as an assignment for my Creative Writing class. The topic was the high school commons [aka the cafeteria] Enjoy.
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Burning fluorescent lights
Reflect against the windows;
Casting shadows on the walls
Of the high school commons.
Shadows from prior years,
Of prior knowledge learned,
And promptly disregarded.
Shadows from old friendships;
Their embers scattered on the ground.
And blown away by the winds of the forgotten.
Shadows of past memories and mistakes;
Replaced by the illuminating light of present knowledge
Which bursts through the gloomy darkness
And radiates throughout the young minds of the students.
