The Choices of the Future

It was the Thanksgiving of last year

I was with family and peers.

When my uncle came up to me and asked,

"Have you decided on your college yet?"

College? College? I wasn't thinking about college.

I never had a thought in my mind about college.

With a flurry of questions about the future,

What's your Degree?ACT?

Considered the SAT?

As a child, I had a carefree life,

No choices or questions that caused me strife.

Now here I am, interrogated about college

A topic I still have limited knowledge.

I wanted to ignore them and go back to before

But I couldn't, I'm not a child anymore.

Before, I was a kid who never cared a dime

But here I am, working part-time

I wasn't worried about money or grades

But those time are soon beginning to fade

I never had choices that would make such an impact

But now it is time for me to accept the fact:

The life I once had is now a memory in the past

And the future ahead is coming real fast.