The End, The Beginning

After looking through an old planner that I used during my senior year of high school, I found this little gem. It's basically a poem about leaving high school and going to college, how it's both a beginning and an end. To capture that concept, I made the poem a palindrome. The punctuation is different of course but the lines are in the same order, just reversed. Originally, I just wrote the first part and the reverse reading was understood for me. But I figured it'd be much easier to read if both the original and the reversal were written out with the correct punctuation. 

For the most part, the different readings have a different tone (not sure if I succeeded in that or not, I was mostly making sure that the poem made sense in both directions). I revised it a bit from what was written in my planner, the wording was a bit off at times and needed to be simplified.

And don't worry, I am enjoying the college experience.

The End, The Beginning

The end.
I never thought it'd be
here so fast.
College came
with stress.
Trying to remember everything,
collecting my life story, I'm always
remembering every test, every success, every grade. It's 
so impossible, 
can I leave my comfort? It's
who I am. But
with college, I'm not
the old. I'm new.
Now is
college, and high school
is done. Here comes 
the beginning

The beginning
is done. Here comes
college, and high school
now is
the old. I'm new.
With college, I'm not
who I am. But
can I leave my comfort? It's
so impossible.
Remembering every test, every success, every grade - it's
collecting my life story. I'm always
trying to remember everything.
With stress
college came
here so fast.
I never thought it'd be
the end.