Poetry Reading: Away We Go, by Zionna Edwards

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

I wanna go home
As the dusk rises
With the sun bending down
And thus, staying there
Until it begins to rise again.

In your car
With the windows down
Does light shine dim
And bright shading the
galaxy, the sky.

Racing down the street
Goes the gas smell and
the steam of engine
rolling and curling, identified
by the neighborhood stoop
kids.

We gather,
We gather.

Our baggage is familiar
The song doesn’t free us
It simply rotates in our
Head.
& on & on
with recognition in our
Eye.

We stare ahead at our
Futures down the road
Away from the homes
Our guts have ever known.

It is dusk quieting us down.
We’re silent now.
No singing
Just dreaming staring
At the center.
The core
Like the hot inside of
The Earth.

We burn
Like a towering inferno
Settling into the far
Distance.

Genre : Futures, Youth, Romance, Fear, Moving Forwar