Lockdown Pantoum
Anastasia Simms
I want to go home.
Then, I realize I am home.
Which just makes me want to go to bed
even though I got enough sleep.
Then I realize I am home,
and the world outside feels big and exhausting,
even though I got enough sleep.
I sleep in every day.
And the world outside feels big and exhausting,
so I hide from it.
I sleep in every day
and yet I am tired,
so I hide from it.
I do as I’m told. I do nothing.
And yet I am tired.
How long can I keep this up?
I do as I’m told. I do nothing,
which just makes me want to go to bed.
How long can I keep this up?
I want to go home.
Anastasia Simms is a second-year honors student at Kent State University studying English, Psychology, and Creative Writing. She has loved reading and writing her whole life, so much so that as a young girl her mom gave her notebooks as presents to stop her from writing on napkins, the mail, or whatever other scraps of paper she could find. Anastasia hopes that her writing will positively impact others just as the written word has always done for her.
