Be brave.
You will find your way using long strides.
You will fill your cracks with gold.
Swallow darkness like lemonade
and savor its twisted flavor.
Scramble into the unknown.
You can’t help but smile.
Your heart will beat
its fractured tune and one
speck of dust will fall from
your tattered suitcase of regrets.
You are broken like the old
clock in the corner of the
home you used to love.
But that’s okay.
You will cartwheel down the sidewalk
leading away from the city.
And you will smile.
by Pearl, 6th grade
Click the media player above to listen to the poem read on Sunny 99.1, KPFT 90.1, and KTRU 96.1 Donald, WITS Youth Advisory Council Student. The background music is “Broken (is everyone here)” by Ketsa. Produced by Susan Phillips.
Poem a Day is made possible in part by H-E-B, Copy.com, The City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Texas Commission on the Arts, KPFT 90.1, Sunny 99.1, and KTRU 96