Poetry

Just Me

Ilya Ivanović

When I first saw the dark of nightI knew who I was.I was another shardOf my birthstone.

I was the king of curiosity.I was a bitter one with danger.I was a monkey going tree to treeAnd the “Ouch!”When I fell out of a bush.I tossed and turned to get upAnd I climbed out of the bush.

Then a few years later,I move away too sad to say,“Will we go back and have fun?”“Yes,” says my mom, “Some day…but not for long.”

Ilya Ivanović Just Me
Ilya Ivanović, 10
Santa Barbara, CA

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