I am lightning
I crackle and I boom
Look at me, look at me
I branch across the sky
Like a giant fiery try
I stalk across the musty earth
On legs of crackling flame
I flash beneath the clouds
Brighter than the sun
But when the sun returns
The clouds carry me
Grumbling away.
– Ramona Santana, age 13
From the anthology “Tell the World,” published by HarperCollins
Poem of the Month: October 2009
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