This piece helped me win my school's poetry slam 2020
and won a Silver Key in the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
One with Youth
I smell you in the summer grass,
taste you in the salty breeze of an azure undiscovered
To be near you is to be loved;
to be heard;
to be undeniably radiant
I’ve never felt so willing to learn;
so willing to live and to cry and to trust,
And yet I see you in rain droplets
feel you in countless smooth petals
as each day feels like
an eternity of Eden-like
gardens growing amongst
every one of my heartstrings.
I hear you in the crunch of leaves
smell you in autumnal spices
with plaid scarves and mended
hearts embracing our never-ending
adoration.
I taste you in the pine trees
see you in the pale fog of a blizzard
while I inhale your peppermint breath
and exhale the warmth you create inside of me.
We are one with time; with passion;
with wild and exuberant youth
To be loved by you is to be
known by the only things that matter;
to be remembered by all the hapless attempts of love I will endure in the wake of our downfall.