A Headful of Teenage Dreams (Prayers and Theories)

By De'Rico Scott-Pringle

This book is about all the typical things that could happen to young people, especially teenagers. Love, lost and heartbreak are topics that take time to process but we all learn something from it. This book takes the reader on a journey from beginning to end. This book takes the reader on a journey from beginning to end. The title is called A Head Full of Teenage Dreams (Prayers and Theories) is because all of this is told in a young person's perspective. Dreams are everything you want in life, prayers are the things you wish for and theories are the things we can't explain but try to in the best way we can.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796058017

De'Rico Scott-Pringle

De’Rico is an author from Myrtle Beach South Carolina. He was always introverted as a child so creative writing at a young age really helped him express himself and shared his views/opinions to the people around him. He wants to share this book with other young adults to help them by explaining that we all struggle with our emotions and checking on our mental health is important.

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Copyright © 2019 by De’Rico Scott-Pringle.

ISBN:              Softcover              978-1-7960-5802-4

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Rev. date: 09/06/2019

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Contents

Warning:

Section 1   Genesis

Summer of ’99: The Beginning

The Night We First Met

10:50 AM

A Stupid Dream   (You’ll Make Fun of Me)

Steps

Time

For Alexandra

Near the Willow Tree

Juxtaposition

A Love That Continues Because of The Rebirth

A Love Letter

Ugly

A Summer Night in the First Week Of August After the Rain

Theories on Dreams

Theories on You and I / Space and Time / I Still Have Questions

Down to Earth

Deer in the Headlights

Home

Okay

Forever Can’t Exist   (Not in this Time)

Our Beginning (That Sadly Came to an End)

Section 2

Memories = Scars

Desperate

You’re Too Damn Stubborn

Count Your Blessings

Sad, but True

The Taste of Saltwater

My Body = An Ocean

Preaching to the Choir

Having it Honest

Open Season

Here I Go

Reflections

Desires

The Note I Didn’t Leave Behind

Your Short-Term Memory Lost

I Need You

The First/Last Lie

:(

Okay, but I’m Not Okay

The Abuser

7 Devils

Ego

Section 3

Theories on Why I Can’t Let Go

Theories on Why I Can’t Say Goodbye

10:27 PM

My Happiness

I. Still. Have. Questions.

A Change of Heart

1:58 PM

How We Fell in Love Over the Internet

A Brief Introduction to Thermodynamics

10:09 PM

Saying Sorry in Your Sleep

One of the Millions of Things I’d Say if You Were Still Here

(Dreaming in) Blue

Section 4

July 2 Dream

A Short Letter to the Conversation We’ll Never Have

Afterburn

2015

Not Taking the Good Parts for Granted

An Original Thought

Alternate Beginning / Ending

Flight or Fight Response

A Little Ode to Pluto

It’s Shawn Mendes’ Birthday

A Letter to the Man Bun Crush

A Letter to Bee (Sophomore Crush)

A Letter Dedicated to W   (The Crush that Left a Heavy, Sinking Ship In my Heart)

Dear Shawn Mendes,

Dear Ariana Grande,

A Note For Homophobic People

Farewell / Last Prayer

Dear BROCKHAMPTON,

A Letter to the Guy at the Cellphone Store

Warning:

This book contains serious topics such as abuse (both physical and sexual, but poems on that subject are very brief. Other topics mentioned in the book are depressive thoughts, sexuality, feelings of low self worth/self-esteem and feel hopeless about life, (not necessarily about suicide but suicide is used as a metaphorical reference).

Section 1

Genesis

"This is me recalling how it all started:

It began with our eyes flirting, looking back at each other

And looking up to the ceiling like the wandering sky

as I didn’t even know

your name but I knew that this was going to go

Somewhere that just might be big enough to change

My life, and boy, you sure did change everything for

Either better or for worse, I honestly can’t

Tell but you did taught me lessons that I’ll never

Forget, living everyday without the memory of

You slipping away is both a blessing and a curse,

A prayer and a spell, a revelation and a mystery,

And yes

We were over before we even started,

Yet somewhere in the middle we made history.

I haven’t been reading that signs that

Foreshadow the outcome to save myself

From the heartbreak."

Summer of ’99: The Beginning

"…Remember when love was the passion that

Brought us together but hate was the force that

Broke us apart?

I was never the same after you left and that

Remains to this day…"

The Night We First Met

"We felt it in our bones, a vibration that traps itself

Into a language only you and I could understand

With our mouths hanging open, our movements

Get so hidden in a new-found rhythm, it felt like

We could dance the night away as long as the

Night shall live, or until we drift off to sleep…

To find ourselves in the mystery of an afternoon."

10:50 AM

"My cheeks melt off from the heat of my face

When you glance at me with this innocence

Carried by the motion in your eyes,

I stare at the floor to make my body comfortable

In this oxygen that we’re sharing,

In situations like these,

There’s a feeling of hopelessness I can’t

Describe,

You don’t know what you’re doing to me,

Or

Maybe you do,

I can’t tell if you’re hiding