Anew

By Sisana Lazarus

Youth is the most beautiful storm

You will love people who don’t love you Hold friends close and then greet like strangers Have chatter and laughter and nights all alone Capricious tuition and shiny ball pens This chapter begins where your old news ends

Leaving home is for big kids So take your time Listen to the lightning and the chaos Every wonderful sound There is choice and there is reason Purpose in all change

Now is the moment Where the world is more open To nurse you and to hurt you To teach you and propel you Out toward the lights you cannot see Into the life that has not yet formed