
VOX Teen Poetry: I Want to Express Me
I want to express me. I want my potential to tower as high as a tree, To give me the power to overcome all adversity,

I want to express me. I want my potential to tower as high as a tree, To give me the power to overcome all adversity,

Twenty-two degrees; The doctor is certain when he says I think it’s scoliosis Sometimes I sit, I am a bird on a traffic line, completely unbothered

When it snows down here, Everyone is amazed Like it’s something magical and new But Maybe it is. The pure, pristine white flakes Floating Floating

My beauty, my cup of tea, my sweet raw honey, hearing your sweet angelic voice always brings tears to my eyes. You’re truly an angel

We can tell stories of empires, riches and geniuses, from another continent Of warlords, of art, and of culture from another land Or we could

I wonder how the world would be if we lived with no mirrors And the only beauty or value I could see of myself was

2021. a year that felt like it was never ending, but here we are at the finish line. you saw right through me. taught me

Marie Van Brittan Brown and I don’t have much in common The girls in my biology class who immerse themselves in the study of life

Gratitude a hard skill to master, yet a satisfying one to partake, The skill of gratitude allows people to know that our goal isn’t just

How was someone like you created? Did a diamond fall off the edge of a star and gently kiss the sun? Did the blazing diamond

They thought I would fly high, So I did I rose above the clouds of adversity, With the dream of changing the world with my

I’ve started a garden, A place to believe in, Something to water, Smells to breathe in. All my plants come from different corners of my