Seventeen
An Alpha and Omega poem for my creative writing class.


Seventeen. Not very old for someone like me.
Who likes the wars in the stars, or the arrow that is green.
The radioactive lizard, the dragons that are trained,
the fellowship of Isildur’s bane and the doctor with no name.

But just one thing and one thing only, has changed my life so much.
With myself, I have gotten in touch.
I never could’ve dreamed it would be like this.
This chance was either hit or miss.

It started when I was just a kid.
There was one movie I liked a lot, oh yes I did.
It was a movie that I just rediscovered recently
And now I watch it quite frequently.

But there was one problem, one big massive plot hole
Who were the main character’s parents?
We never were told.

He had no past, he had no history, he was just kind of there,
This was a problem, of which everyone was aware.

So at the age of 15, I decided to fix it,
I didn’t know how, but I was going to do this.
I joined a fan club for said childhood movie,
I would write a fanfiction, I would do it, truly.

“Just one story”, I thought to myself,
Just one tale that I had to tell.
Of course it didn’t stay that way, I just kept going,
I couldn’t stop all the ideas from flowing.

The world began to grow much bigger from what it was in the movie.
All the new lore I had created mixed pretty smoothly.
One story turned into two, and then into three, then to four,
I had never been so dedicated to something before.

At the end of the third story, I decided to end it.
One last trilogy, three final tales to tell,
To wrap it all up in a way that fit well.

So here I am at the start of my fifth story,
The main villain’s been introduced, he’s about to wreak havoc,
With the heroes trying to survive, as they are his quarry.
But I’ve hit a case of writer’s block, and I cannot get past it.
So I signed up for this class,
Hoping I could overcome it at last.

And when I look back at it all, back to the very beginning,
I think of all that has since happened, and I find myself grinning.
All the characters and places and adventures are bliss,
I never imagined it would grow as big as this.

And as I sit here, looking at my screen,
I realize all of this happened, while I was seventeen.