The End

• Abby Prest, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2021

"Look I'm a mermaid" the young girl joked swimming in the pool.
"Look I'm a mermaid" the teen girl muttered drowning herself in the pool.

"I can fly" she said jumping off the couch with her fake wings.
"I can fly" she said with a smile as she jumped from the building.

"Finally" she said finishing her homework.
"Finally" she said as she took her last breath.

"Hunny, wake up" she said to her daughter on Christmas day.
"Hunny, wake up" she said looking at her daughter on the hospital bed.

"You're only 14" her mother said when her daughter asked for a tattoo.
"You're only 14" her mother said seeing her daughter and her funeral.

"I love and miss you" she said hanging up the phone to her daughter.
"I love and miss you" she said in her daughter's funeral speech.