the soft

to the college that rejected me

A/N: I wrote this for my friend who was absolutely heartbroken after a college rejected her. to cheer her up, i wrote this funny poem for her! (I will be waiting until march/april for my decisions so hopefully this poem won't apply to me. . . ) Anyway, to everyone who's going through the college admissions process, i hope you remember that you have worked so hard and that you are all such wonderful and amazing people. please don't define yourself by your acceptances/rejections. your worth has nothing to do with this institutions and this brief period of time that will mean nothing in the grand scheme of times. good luck and remember that things will always happen for a reason <3

dear college that rejected me,

alright,

i understand

you have over a trillion

applicants

vying for your attention

like the emotionally distant bad boy

all girls somehow desire

alright,

i understand

i'm just one of the trillion

grains of sand

plain, boring, easy to

overlook

and when all the fish

in the sea are yours

the fish become

a fun number to

play with

it must have been fun to

play with my emotions

send me emails proclaiming

your love

while the whole time

you were courting another

and treating me like

your sugar daddy

(I suppose i didn't give

you enough — did you want

a million dollar "donation"

and a building built

for your "hogwart-esque"

campus?)

i'll have you know.

if you were a polygamist,

why didn't you say so?

if you were a person

you religiously have a body

count tally

do you like your below 10%

acceptance rate?

glad to be another number

on your list to feed your ego

it's inflated — just like

your tuition

you gave up a really

good thing

have fun with people saying

"i love you" with their

lips on another love

they lied to you

just like you lied to me

telling me that there's

nothing more you'd love

than me becoming a part

of your life

alright,

i understand

maybe i was a little obsessive

drew little hearts with

our initials in the corners

of my calculus homework

that i did to impress you

maybe i dreamed a bit too much

thinking about the kids we'd have

once we were married

i'd want a boy and a girl

and they'd have a sweet

tongue as good as you

but i now know that

if you were a parent

you'd be bad. just look at

all the sexual assault cases

you'll never address

alright,

i understand

i'm nothing special.

i haven't started a non-profit.

i haven't won a national award.

i haven't cured cancer.

i haven't created anything

that might outlast me

but while you have fun

playing with your hoes

i hope you'll remember

that i'll always love you.

and when you lost me,

you lost something true