Life

• Jennifer Oshana, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2021

everything sucks
no one can convince me that
life is okay
it isn't
it's said that life is painful
both inside and out
joy
isn't everywhere
failure—
that is what it's like
like a wave washing over me—
life sucks
nothing that happens can ever convince me that
life is good
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