A Girl With Pearls

• Bailie Kapukaya, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2018

All say my imagination
runs too wild and too free
but they are the ones that know not
how to live in a fantasy

Where flowers grow in my hair
and beasts read me stories
of lands they used to roam
of long-lost territories

So you see it is better
to be wild and free
then without an imagination
it’s not just with our eyes that we see