Coexist
​By: Claire Cooper

You burnt my map.
If all roads lead to the same place,
why pick one?
Everything cycles:
your laps around the equator,
my pencil on a Mӧbius strip,
a whole life spent,
immortality?

You took my map,
but I found your answer.

​And it’s the one you already know.

Poetry

"Life is so full of distractions that many people forget about what really matters" --Claire Cooper, homeschool student from South Carolina