Grow Logan Wagner

Chains holding me back, deadweight I carry on my back, a creature pulling me back. Back from what though?

Countless days will pass, hours upon hours will pass, month after month will pass, years to decades will pass. They pass, and countdown to what though?

I will grow, my mind will grow, my friends will grow. What else will grow as well though?

Chains holding me back, countless days pass, I will grow.

Back from what though? They’ll pass, and countdown to what though? What else will grow as well though?

Is it the fear that I will have as long as I live? The fear that will hold me back, the fear that will be what will pass, and the fear that will grow?

It is with this fear, this fear that is what everyone's last thought is.

But still, for I will no longer let these chains hold me back. I will no longer just let days pass, I will still continue to grow.

The fear that lives in my heart will be the last fear I have, so why let that fear stop me from life?

Once again, I will say it,

Chains holding me back, deadweight I carry on my back, a creature pulling me back. Countless days pass, hours upon hours pass, month after month pass, years to decades pass. I will grow, my mind will grow, my friends will grow.

And when the chain breaks free, when the days have stopped passing, and when I am all done growing, what will I be remembered for, what will I have stood for?

According to Proverbs 1:1, it says: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

It started in the dark, and it will end in the dark. That people right there, right there is my fear.

Logan Wagner, Grade 7 Northdale Middle School, Saint Paul Teaching Artist, SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE