Unknown

• Tayah Rodrigues, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2021

Every time I open my eyes,
I see a brightness all over me.
It’s like a gateway, the gateway to the unknown.

The unknown; our world’s unknown,
and that is how it stays.
I see colour for the very first time.
I can see the waves, crashing on the beach.
As far as I see, the water is blue.
But now I see the unknown;
under the water, higher than planes,
brighter than moonlight, hotter than sun.

Yeah, that is where I see and meet my unknown.
My unknown, a whole other universe,
waiting to be discovered for the first time.

But it’s unknown,
and that’s how eternity remains,
unknown, untouched… unknown