Should I? by Andrew Garcia

Should I?

I am without a companion.

without someone to stand by with.

I have no shoulder to cry on.

Is he really my friend?

Is she really me friend?

I still need to keep away.

But why?

I want to be closer,

but I can’t.

I love them.

and I can’t be with them.

Why not?

They said to keep away.

Do you want to see them?

but I can’t.

I need to keep away.

You need to act.

You can’t let the world pass you.

Act.

Be your own driver.

The book The perks of being a Wallflower is about teenagers and their journey through the coming of age. Charlie, Sam and Patrick are the main characters, who discover the problems of becoming teenagers. "You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love." (198) This is my favorite quote in the book because Sam tells, the main character, Charlie that he is letting everyone else tell him how to live his life, but he does not do what he really wants to do in life. My poem goes more into depth on this, and how Charlie finds it difficult to show to people what he thinks is best, and what he honestly believes. We see Charlie’s passive nature as he is dating Mary Elizabeth, but actually does not like anything about her, and doesn’t want to date her, but has trouble telling her. In my poem it says “Do you want to be with them? but I can’t.” This represents Charlie and how he struggles to tell the girl who he actually loves, Sam, how he really feels about her.