In a Grove 2021

But look, you made it “But look, you made it” Mama, I did not make it. The little girl inside of me did not make it. I left me in the dust for dead My shell, my body, my twisted smile and blind eyes made it. Mama, The real smiles, soft sleep and the stomach-clenching laughter did not make it. The faith in humanity, real dreams and the fairy tails did not make it You said stay alive and I heard keep your heart beating even if it means you have to kill your mind. And I think you wanted me to do Something in between the two But I have never found a happy medium for both of us I am either all here or all gone

I am either all happy or completely torn I am either too much or nothing at all And I have picked to worse option My heart is beating, But my brain gets no oxygen

Dylan Clement—3rd Place, 11/12 Poetry

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Nicole Liu, “Good Morning, Cairo”

Eman Murshed, “The Eerily Unfamiliar”

Julianna Cook, “Nahanni Expedition 2018”

3rd Ilana Mohamed, “My Truth”

Grades 11/12 1st Dylan Clement, “Relapse”

2nd Michael Cheaito, “Command and Conquer”

3rd Sunaina Vallamkonda, “The Injury”

3rd Gabi Brown, “Minnows in the Shadows”

2nd Michael Cheaito, “From My First Hit”

2nd Rida Shabaz, “The Ball Drop”

Grades 11/12 1st Dylan Clement, “Into the Mountains, We Must Go”

Grades 9/10 1st Amelia Peng, “The Story of My Life”

3rd Grace Bender, “It Was Through a Crack in the Blinds”

3rd Sarah Bender, “Column for Ellis”

Grades 11/12 1st Michael Cheaito, “How to Have Your First Kiss”

2nd Selina Li, “1% Prison Island”

2nd Julianna Cook, “The Circle that Never Ends”

3rd Rida Shabaz, “Indecisive Mind”

3rd Dylan Clement, “But look, you made it”

Grades 9/10 1st Teya Webster, “My Little Piece of Heaven”

2nd Clara Cosete, “I’m Drowning”