Poem

Michelle Bailey
Grade 10
Roseau Community High School

This blank piece of paper in front of me

White, pure, clean, unmarred

Words form, in verse and rhythm

My mind full of ideas and thoughts

That cannot be put down

On this sheet of paper

I can't say what I've been trying to

For so long

Feelings, thoughts, ideas

Swirling in the black hole of my mind

My eyes show nothing of the great authorial works

Being created behind my pupils

Trying to put myself

Into words

Onto paper

Is the hardest thing for me to do.