LEGO...

• Aaditya Chawla, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2020

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But LEGO pains as heck,
You see this LEGO really means something else
Something more like a life all messed.

Everyday struggles of social media
Teenagers living life in thirds,
Sleep, Text, Ignore, Repeat
But what really hurts are the words.

Just like LEGO, you dig in the box
And the things you find might not be what you want them to be,
But whatever life throws at you
We have to always learn to agree.

They say, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
The change is the hype of “Supreme”
Instead we try to find the wrongs
In the paradigm of a perfect teen