Shoelaces

Student's Description:

Shoe laces have inspired me to write this poem, as I wear sneakers frequently to go to campus. As a past associate degree student, it is scary yet hopeful to go into university right after the first year of my associate degree. I was scared and still strived to get excellent grades. The situation, which either my friends or my boyfriend to ask me tie my shoelaces and encourage me to be confident in, is true and easy to understand. This is a piece of my own personal growth since I went into this university. Anxiety to being confident enough is a huge journey. I used some rhyming to form this poem and wrote it wholeheartedly, expressing gratitude to my loved ones and the university.

Shoes guided me to walk here,

future in Metropolitan University seemed to be clear,

trailing loose ends of past self.

My thoughts tied into knots in lectures,

tangled theories and concepts looked like fractures.

Anxieties on whether I belong here dragged along like shoelaces,

My friend chases,

asking me to tie my shoelaces.

He said be confident and strong,

the past has gone.

When I cross the campus at sunset,

every stumble I survived is all set.

Kindness and love accompanied me,

through every step in class.

University did not give me new shoes,

I learned how to tie my shoes-

to tie each strand of fear and hope,

cross them, pull and to fasten the rope.