We are Human, are we not?

We are Human, are we not? - Claire Dayoun Kang (Seoul Foreign School, 12th Grade)

 1. Spring

 Daybreak

 My day starts with the tree’s verdant being

 Once again through the smile that spreads across my friend’s face who has awaited.

 My start begins with the heaven’s azure being,

 that paints the smile only He can bring

 Hands folded

 We stroll through the turquoise of the vast forest

 Praying that the solemn smile of the trees around us

 change not with the world around us

2. Summer &Fall

 September

 Is it not foolish

 the human in us all

 admires and loves

 after all its treacherous miseries

 it forgets again and again

 The hued autumn leaves falling yet again

 Secretly carrying the burning passion they thought had dissipated

 The glistening reflects of summer everywhere;

 No longer able to maintain the calmness it cannot bear

 Yet the ironic tenderness of summer to autumn, and autumn to summer,

 reminds us that it is because of this that we are human

 that none of it should be removed

 just like the blurred lines of September

 3. Winter

 Winter Breeze

 The winter breeze unfailingly carries many things

 The Christmas carols played five Fridays much too soon,

 The embrace that one shares in the tantalizing cold,

A song hummed excitedly on the way to meet a friend,

 The smell of cookies baking to a golden brown,

 With the green leaves that will return in the spring

 Winter will once again leave us

 Promising that it will return

 Just as it did soon after last September

 when the hued autumn leaves had fallen

 and the reflections of summer had glistened

 It is because of this we are human