Maia won first prize in the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest with this poem. The theme of the contest was Look Closer.
Look
Closer
by
Maia
A speck
A form
A shape
A living thing
A mammal
A human
A female girl
A brunette
A gold eyed girl
A pale girl
A scared girl
A confident girl
An ambitious girl
A girl
Who wonders
Things like
Why should it matter
If to someone off in the distance
I am a speck
Things like
Why should it matter
If I never change the world
Who
Would
Ever
Know
A girl
Who answers
Things like
Because to a speck that I see
I am a giant
Thing like
Because it would matter to me
If I just disappeared
From existence
Without
Making a difference
A girl
Who decides
Things like
Then I will avoid stepping on
every
speck on the sidewalk
That moves
Things like
Then I will change
the world
A little bit
At
A time
All this
From
just
a speck.
1 comment:
That’s really good! That’s deep! That’s like college level. From Lucy L
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