Caged Bird-Inspired Poem

I Don’t Know…

I don’t know what I’m doing.

I don’t know what I want to do with my life.

I don’t know where I want to go.

I don’t know what I want to accomplish.

I am an eighteen year old girl who doesn’t know.

We spend the first eighteen years of our lives preparing ourselves…

For what?

Are we preparing ourselves to make a change in the world?

To make as much money as we possibly can?

To have a steady home with a family and a dog?

I don’t know if that’s what I want.

From the time I started fifth grade,

I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

But now?

I just don’t know.