In A Year

Looking back a year, I’m rather shocked

By all the things I’ve learned

I’ve worked and lived and loved and talked

To people I’d never seen before

I made new friends, then lost them all

To the strange thing of time

But I can still name them, short to tall

Without seeing them in a line

And those I know, well, we’ve all changed

Our relationships shifted

I know some better, though it’s strange

They aren’t those I expected

In a year of school I’ve learned a lot

In a year of life I’ve grown

In a year of trials I’ve worked and fought

In a year of things I’ve known