Category: Poetry

Lela Smith

Autumn.

By Lela Smith – Originally published in Queensbury High School’s Seeing Blue 2022 As the air grows colder in my chest, So does it cool around me, And I feel almost at home  Among the early morning frost. I am built up  As it tears me down. It’s true what they say, That the dose…
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Can You Pick Me Up?

By Lela Smith – Originally published in Queensbury High School’s Seeing Blue, 2020. Dad, can you pick me up? Everyone’s loud, but altogether it’s too quiet. Everything’s blending together, but the boy right next to me is talking right in my ear, right to my brain, drilling a whole in my head painfully slowly. It…
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