I am your opportunity possibilities hinge on your decision to turn my handle I see your hesitation peering at me through a keyhole but enter my friend let’s share ourselves with what could be I long for your company hidden behind a globe of brass lie my stories waiting to turn into our stories shutting ourselves behind a frame of friendship deemed impossible to waiver despite the many knocks stay with me for a while behind this door
*Published in Amazing Kids! magazine
* Awarded the “Silver Key” Award for the Scholastic Art and Writing Award of 2012