pop canned backyards peeking through the clear watered paradise catching the imprint of our toes in the sand fading to the skeletons building up their sidewalks rotting away at their mortality morality is burning into our innocent skin scarring their past resurfacing with each arrogant picture we’ll take for a souvenir holding a tight grip on our one dollar tip as the tray slips young bellies swell with hunger when the glass breaks and the water spills speaking truths to the floor their sun will set our moods rise high as homeland mixes will intoxicate our night as we awake to the salt water cleansing our cuts stinging our souls we’ll only watch their hearts warm the world that slowly burns them away
Raquel Teibert is currently a grade 12 student at St. Paul Catholic Highschool in Niagara Falls, Canada. Her passion is writing and she hopes to some day make a difference with her words.