Adam McManis
Adam McManis is a senior at Aragon High School. Adam’s interest in writing was not sparked by an extravagant event; it was more of a flow, like crawling to walking. Adam never saw it as something he enjoyed until his junior year of high school, when he accepted it was a strength of his academically. Adam began to value the therapy of writing out feelings and ideas, like his view of love. Through the class, he has been able to expand his capabilities in the art form of creative writing.
That Love
“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”- Maya Angelou
I wanted to tell you how I felt
I couldn’t do it
I knew your depth
How far you had fallen,
down the rabbit hole
Chasing something,
Invisible in the dark
I let this go
I knew how you felt.
But, you did not understand
A concept I couldn’t explain
I had to accept my failure,
With you
I wasn’t your teacher
We were both falling
Stuck in the rabbit hole,
My love for you,
A transitional existence
through the pathway to a different world
Between lifestyles
Don’t change for people
Or for me
You needed this,
You always said it to me,
But you were broken,
And all my words were heavy,
Always true
I had nothing left to give
But this,
You’re happy, you told me
Thank you
I hope you love you
Like I did
Like I will
Always
Dwindling Star
I gazed at her like a star. A star that I followed all my life, that I cherished as my symbol of hope and beauty. That star that always shined bright in my eyes was now dwindling in its power. A star that once shown in the sky as the light to my darkness. A star that I would look to as a guidance to come home to. She lay on the bed with three different needles in her body seeming to drain her of her bright beauty. She was dying from sickness. A day surely to come for anyone. A person, a planet, and even a star. Why this star, and why now? I needed her bright energy, her smile, her love when I felt lost in the dark. Now it would always be dark and I would always be lost.
