Drift
The Wrap-up of Highschool
It’s strange how a spring break reveals who you won’t miss once you graduate. The people you’ll stop thinking about and all but forget and the people who you’ll miss so much it hurts.
Then you come back and see friends you didn’t once think about and almost forgot existed. You say “hi” as if nothing’s changed and yet you know something has. You’ve begun to realize which friends won’t reach out. Which ones aren’t as close to you as you thought.
Drift
The reveal of those you will no longer know
Is surprisingly painful
Knowing who you’ll long to see
Wishing to long for the words of those you won’t
The tides shift the beaches and I wonder if they miss the old shoreline
Or if they too know that as they change
The creatures living there shift further and further away.
I am in touch with four people I went to high school with. One of them, we weren’t even friends in high school. We weirdly connected over IG posts in later years. I promise, whatever pain you feel now will go away. The most important, meaningful relationships of your life (outside of family) are still on the horizon.