Jasper Jones ‘I Am’

• Angie Van Hees, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2022

I am an outsider
I love only you
I want to escape this town
I play that night in my mind like a broken record player
I see how Corrigan looks at me
I am an outsider
I am afraid of your ghost; will you ever forgive me?
I am only happy when I am beside you
I am nervous to visit where you lay
I am excited to create the life we once could have created together
I am an outsider.