My Song

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Auston Wingard

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Jaclyn Largin

Over their lives

Over their days

Over the fields

Above the clouds.

Shinning on their faces

On the trees

On the flowers

Being

The light of their day.

My job is to make them see

Make them come out

Make things grow,

Warm the cold days.

As I rise

The world wakes up.

As I start to set

The trees tell me

“Keep shinning.”

The humans tell me

“We need your light.”

The animals tell me

“We need more time to play.”

But can’t they see I need to pause?

Can’t they see the rest of the world needs me too?

They think without me

They can no longer see

Get a pocket flashlight

So you can ALWAYS see.

I need to go light the hills

That are on the other side.

I need to warm their part of the world

I need to give them a reason to wake up.

I’ll be back tomorrow

But they tell me

Tomorrow might never come,

So they need me today.

But I can’t stay.

It breaks my shine to leave

It puts a cloud over me

It puts the chilled wind in the air to cover my warmth.

When I was made

I was made with faith.

Faith that as the things and people that I helped grow

Start to die,

That they will be just fine.

And with that faith

I continue to come and go.

Even with

Them screaming for me to

STAY.

My sisters

Are the clouds

Some clouds follow me close

 And some drift away.

I remember

This one cloud that was beautiful

Inside and out.

But where is this cloud?

Sometimes

 I find myself traveling the world looking for it.

But I guess

 As I rise

 It is just going down,

And I miss it,

Too late.

The birds

Are my family,

They need me to stay

 And let them see

While on their way.

I’m the reason they still fly at day,

I light their path

And if you look closely at me,

You can see my maker.

The flowers

Are my brothers,

Their too small to understand

That without me

They might just fall over.

I have responsibilities

Responsibilities to stay and

Help them grow

Help them see

Help them love

Help them be strong enough

To stand.

The nature all around me is

My mother,

She needs me to help her

Be strong.

But I must go,

I must carry on.

The other side is calling me.

The moon

Is my soul mate,

It tells me

Not to worry

 About the things that are breaking my shine by begging me to stay

Because

They’ll be just fine.

It helps me be able to move along.

The days I must shine

Is my future calling me

To continue with my destiny

The destiny to shine.

I tell myself

You have to brighten the

Other part of the world

That you have yet to

Come across.

Throughout my path

I see things that

Are different than

The place I was before.

OH,

How it feels good to shine.

If I stay I might

Not make my dreams

Come true,

The dreams of shinning

All the days to come.

Above me is my maker and his kingdom

And sometimes

I can see the people who once

Were asking me to stay

But are now telling me to go.

Even though I feel nature

Is asking me to stay

She is telling me to go.

So I can light the world.

Well

 I’m leaving

I’m going down.

I’ll be back tomorrow,

I must go now,

So long to this

Side but hello to the other.

Until tomorrow,

I must say

Goodbye.

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Loey Peete

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Jonathan Rochester 

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In "Song of the Chattahoochee", Sidney Lanier used the geographic features of his home state Georgia to speak of the pressing need to leave.  In the same way, you are to write your own "song" in which you reference both the true and symbolic geographic features of your own 'home' as you speak about your leaving.  You will also record yourself reading your "song" and will upload your podcast here to this page.