Jasper The Original

• Sofia Tripodi, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2017

This Is jasper
A seed surrounded by plants
A plant surrounded by flowers
A flower surrounded by trees
A tree surrounded by paper
But he was not paper
A stump is what he was
Stuck in the same place
Waiting to grow again
Never discovering himself
For he only focused on what he wasn’t
Rather them what he was
No-one liked the copy
The paper he tried to fit in with
the real Jasper, A Stump
No longer following the other copies
An Original