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CTRL

May 15, 2019
By dashahn23 BRONZE, Camden, New Jersey
dashahn23 BRONZE, Camden, New Jersey
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Happiness and control go hand and hand


To be happy you have to have control


And having control lets you be happy


But, if you don’t have control, then are you unhappy


We all want control

But the the truth is


We can’t control everything


And as hard as it is for us to accept it


We try and fight it everyday


Which has us in our deepest fight yet


Fighting to be happy


People want to be able to smile without lying


Or to know that people are  there for them

At times they need them most


But, these things result in things we can’t control


We can’t control what happens in life


If we are dealt a bad hand


We can’t change the cards we have


We can only shuffle them


We can’t control people changing on us


Telling our secrets


Falling out of love


All we can do is wish for the best


The teenage years are when we yearn for control


Because when things in our life start to spiral


There's not much we can do except be a bystander to our own lives

Not having control is everyone's biggest fear


Not being happy is everyone's biggest fight


Total control our biggest fantasy


It's our biggest dream that will never come true


There is no way we can have complete control


Which leads us to a long fight which we can’t win


My main question in life is

If you can’t have control

How can you be happy?


I’ve tried to be happy in friendships


Relationships


Drugs


And nothing seems to work


Then I realized my main sadness was with problems I couldn't control


So for you to be happy


You need to accept the things you can’t control


Control the things you can


The author's comments:

I am just a regular kid trying to make it big in Camden. I wrote this poem to show the emotions we all feel as we grow and try to take control of our lives.


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