"Poetry" is Forever Enigmatic

"Poetry" is Forever Enigmatic - Jae (Stephanie) Kim (Richard Henry Dana Middle School, Eighth Grade)

Poetry will always whisper lullabies a mother could never sing.

Letters like ants strung upon invisible twine

At the mercy of anyone who will ever hear them

Interpreted in a way they were not meant to be read

You cannot know anyone, and you cannot know their poetry,

Unless you have known everything their heart has to say.

Their words are ticklish along the hairs on your arms, crawling toward you

An inner monologue assembled as an army 

Prepared to declare a war

Between the soul and mind,

And to side with logic you give up the pen

The potential works you could have written

To side with your mind you give up your life, the imagination like roads

Stretching beyond the lengths of the universe

That as a child,

You bounded endlessly across.