2024: Like Cheese

by the 7th grade Red Bank Middle School AVID class of 2024

I’d want to be in my bed,
but I want to change 
and become a better person.
I want to travel more.
I want to stop caring 
about what people say or think of me.
Not to lose friends I’m really close to.
I’ll stay true to myself.
I’ll end this life the same way I started it: alone.
So I want to do challenges I’m able to do 
and to obtain those skills. 
I want to pay more attention to school 
than games.
I wish I could bring back
the time I spent playing games 
and use it for hanging out 
with my family. 
A prediction that I have for 2024 
is that some of the AVID students 
will get into NJHS.
I want all of my AVID friends 
to have success in college. 
I will start having better handwriting.
Something I want to pay attention to in 2024 
is basketball.
Making the basketball team freshman year.
I feel like I would get better over time.
I see an RBMS team going to the championship.
In 2024, I want to become a better person 
and help out my friends and family.
Cheese is like life. 
It starts off good (say, American), 
then it gets bad (you know, expired), 
but then it becomes old 
but good again (like blue cheese). 
I predict we will be better 
with each mistake we make. 
We turn to the better.
Like cheese.