Totem Pole – A Series of Haikus
There is a place
Where I can travel back
To the past me
Inside the woods
Decorated greenery
Stands a totem
A totem of me
The different versions
Of my past self
At the very bottom
Is the youngest of myself
Happy, gullible
Above that another
A more mature, yet not wise
But soon dying off
As we keep rising
The cycle continues on
One dying, one born
Carved of mistakes
Younger me felt very awkward
But now I’m grateful
I look back happy
Happy with my discrete self
Admiring my past
Things I got wrong
The things I created
Things I learned from
They make up myself
I can’t help but look back
And smile to myself
Dana is a Senior entering her second year as a staff writer on The Central Trend. She rows for FHC. During her free time, Dana finds herself organizing,...