Friday, March 8, 2024 Meet the Youth Ambassador: Keira
Keira is a very emotional and upfront person, which is reflected in her writing. She is incredibly unhinged and finds the act of quantifying her feelings daunting, which is why poetry is her preferred medium—beautiful word barf, with a side of oversharing. She is a junior at Alexander High School and has a goal to not be aggressively awkward this year.
Keira’s been involved with the Writing Center since 2017! Check out her poem “Climate Change” from JBWC’s Ground Beneath Our Feet anthology.
“Climate Change”
pounding,
pounding,
pounding,
screaming at the top of its lungs
like my beaten-down brain.
Yet no one hears,
no one stops to care for the broken girl
or the broken world.
A movement coming together,
creating something out of nothing
like the tears in my mind,
the black holes of my soul.
Burning
until there is nothing left but ashes.
Starving
until there is nothing left but bones.
I am not separated from the burning house,
I am the burning house
in a place where firemen don’t exist.
We must extinguish our own fires
or else the whole world will be ablaze,
filled with shattered pieces of broken dreams,
silenced like my voice.
But still I stand,
my pen a glint of sunlight
bleeding through the darkness.