Page 4 - The Muse 2019-20 Issue

Singing in the Wind
Looking out the window thinking of the swaying wind Wondering what it would be like to sing with the tall topless trees My wonder was fairly endless
Like the big beautiful blue sky
I closed my eyes and
My body started to move Like an airplane on its runway My legs were a car
Moving me closer outside
Hoping my voice
Will be a violin
I quietly start humming With the melody of the wind
-Sofia Mehech, Grade 5
Blue Ribbon
Cry
All I could do is cry like the baby I was,
The thing I was when she was here.
I was so drowned in my thoughts,
I could not hear my own mother trying to comfort me. A curtain of darkness fell over me.
Her disappearing caused dark and devastating thoughts to desolate my brain.
I was jealous beyond imagination.
I was jealous that she was in a better place without me. She was living like an angel,
An angel with no worries at all.
My eyes were completely red, My stomach felt empty,
My head felt sore,
I felt miserable
The world was a trap that I had got caught in.
Move on.
That’s all anyone ever told me from that day on. I knew I should’ve,
It didn’t feel right yet.
She disappeared two years ago,
It wasn’t enough time for me.
The walls attacked me every time I walked by,
I was always upset and tired
Nothing would please me or fulfill my needs.
I still felt guilty.
Like her being gone was my fault.
In bed,
I stared at my ceiling for hours as it stared back.
Recovery
It took me ages.
It took little to nothing,
Just my family,
My sweet and simple siblings, And hope.
-Alexa Shaham, Grade 5
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Raissa Almeida Miglioli, Grade 8