I love the imagery! It was intensified with the eerie music I can hear at the moment. (from a computer game that I am NOT playing) And the ending was perfect.

I just found you - never seen you on AP before, somehow - and even just after reading your autobiography on your homepage, and now this - wow!!! I can't believe you're so young... no, that's awful, shouldn't say that (*self-corrects* haha) - I feel like it's such a cliched compliment, and why SHOULD it be a compliment? I should say why I like the writing instead - because age doesn't matter: good writing does, and you had my breath caught at "I am my own hero / In a relationship with my future." I feel the same way!! This entire poem reminding me of my teen years, and the way I felt like I was creating myself, my present, and my future. It was such an active, artistic process. I STILL feel this way - or I want to feel it more. Yayy, I love finding writing that I sympathize with!! I identified with almost every one of what you wrote about. I could read this over and over. It's so breath-full of life!!