So Ben, I see you used to be a good poet! What happened? Just kidding. This is quite good. It is sad that a 14-year-old is thinking those thought however. I can't say that I didn't. I remember starting the 9th grade and had just been liberated from a horrible Junior High School in Albuquerque where I risk getting beat up every day. One day on the way to the new school, I had an ephiany. It was just a thought but for the firsrt time in my life I knew that I could know everything that could be known. I just had the knowledge that my Mind had access to all knowledge and that I was equal to all the great thinkers, scientist, poets etc. Before that time, I had thought that poverty, or family standing, or privledge or fate limited me. That is why I still remember it to this day. It wasn't arrogance. It was just the realization that "all men are created equal", not abstractly, but really. Of course I forget that more often than I should but thank God for those moments of clarity even if they are 45 years old. It is good that you can see what you were thinking at age 14. The ambivalence about life in this poem is totally understandable and could be sang by David, Locke, Hume, Aristotle, Job, Skakespeare et all- it is very wise. We just have to remember we are still chidren. We will be better off remembering that.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein