Stay a While

Priscilla Ortiz, IMPACTT c/o 2004

Grand Prize – Poetry – Category 4

 

Sitting on top of a mountain

Watching the life below.

The wind runs through my hair

Sending chills down my spine.

I see a cactus near

Slowly decomposing

This says life has gone on even though

There was no one to watch.

Oddly, a bird comes out and flies away

This says all things

Are someone’s treasures.

Down below a busy city that never sleeps

Here on top life that lives as a whisper.

I think I might stay a while.