My hair’s twists and tangles
By: Ayomi Mukerjee
Thomas Wootton High School
Grade: 9
Montgomery County, MD
A tall tree sinks in its uncanny world Until flowers, vivid with color, sprout Now the tree is beautiful. Coarse strands of unlit waves extend from my head But I'm not beautiful. an inching caterpillar patently abides time before emerging into a valuable butterfly I let the flimsy liquids consume my strands I wait… Wait … Wait… But it never makes me valuable I was told that the twirls are hard to manage Tousled waves take time, too much time The oceans constantly intertwine Fabricating a steady peace I dreamed of making peace with my arduous strands Nevertheless I chose war Relentless morphing to do away with my foggy curls Morphing to sprout beams of straight hair from my head instead Though this change is only temporary Cause even if you sever the daring flowers They surface once more in the spring with a bigger charge Me and the ripples that tortured me may not be familiar Though in a new day I wish for the artificial beams of light to go below and release my midnight hair once more Once more to thank those twists and tangles for molding me into the distinct girl I am now