The New Story

• Kayla Palmer, Grade 9, Penguin High School
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Top Secret 2016' competition

Living a dream, enjoying life,
Finding a place to belong - seeking others who smile,
Ignoring the hardships - embracing the strife,
Seeing the place to live your future - all the while,
Having lived a dream, enjoyed life.

See the dream drift away, enjoyment draining thin,
The place feels different - others are alien,
Inescapable hardships - others unaware of the dim,
Having to leave your past - reminded again,
Saw the dream drift away, enjoyment drained thin.

Starting anew, the new story,
Different abode unimaginable - no one ignorant,
The hardships few - every one understanding,
Found where you should have been - your true present,
Starting anew, the new story.