Smallville Poem by Frank Valenti

Growing up in a small town

Everyone knows your name

And every day seems the same

Yet you feel so profound

Living life day by day

Trying your hardest just to get out

Little whispers become a shout

Because everyone hears what you say

The big city feels like a dream

Hating the thought of leaving your girl

Your entire world torn up in a whirl

Takes everything you have not to scream

What keeps you going, a deeply seeded hope

Feeling so claustrophobic

It makes your insides sick

Looking out at the world through a parascope

Telling yourself that one day you'll be free

To show these closed minded people what you were made to be