Artwork by: Mark Coicou
A saddening thing
Longing for my past
An unattainable desire
How it left me so fast
My own forsaken childhood
Filled with toys and trees
When my problems were papercuts
When I was scared of the breeze
How I wish I could build
An old time machine
Like the ones I once saw
In children's magazines
It was never always easy
Through all my mistakes
Yet I wish I had time
To slam on the brakes
Evan Dana is an eighth grader from Houston, Texas, who is interested in theater, creative writing, sports, speech and debate, cooking and baking, poetry, short stories, language, and volunteering.
Mark Coicou is a 17-year-old student at Quisqueya Christian School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
