Daphne Baumgartner
High School Freshman
March 2023
Prompt: How do you personally change with the seasons or how do you see others around you change (summer, fall, winter, and spring)?
Trees will bend and rocks erode
Under the intense pressure of
Minutes,
Hours,
Days,
Weeks,
Months,
Centuries.
Time tends to press its hands down
And crush every
Romance,
Loss,
Fleeting feeling of knowing you’ve been there before
But you haven’t
Every living thing drowns in the river that is time
Rushing, flowing, not caring what it brings with it
Or leaves behind.
I raise my head out of the water,
And on the shore I see him
All of my romance, life, loss
Lays there on the rocky, sandy bank
The river slows down gradually
Until not a molecule moves.
His beauty reverbarates throughout the Ecosystem of the universe
My hair may grow,
I may become wiser
So much wiser not to want to listen to anyone
But then he echos,
Through my ears,
Through my bones,
Through my soul,
And in a heartbeat,
Just as fast as he changed my entire life outcome
He disappears like a grain of sand
Under rolling ocean waves
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