Sunday, December 13, 2020

Maia's poem 2020

 Maia won an honorable mention for the high school category in the West Roxbury Library poetry contest.   This year's contest theme was "space."  


Negative Space

By Maia 

 


The amount of space between you and me

Is too much.

The amount of time it would take for me to reach you

Is too long.

The number of days I have been without you

Has been too hard.


When you draw a picture

You notice that your object is surrounded by space.

Engulfed in it. 

Suffocated by it. 


You are my rock.

You are my guide.

There for me when my world is crumbling.

There for me when I am crumbling. 

But now you are there and I am here.

Leaving nothing but

Suffocating

Negative

Space.

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