Potential
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Jaylen
4/28/20261 min read
Potention
by Jaylen
Coach says I have "potential,"
which is a word adults use
when they mean not yet.
I looked it up.
It means capable of becoming.
I think about that on the bus home,
how I am a whole bunch of things
I haven't become,
stacked up inside me
like firewood
waiting on a match.