BHS Inkwell 2017-2018

Seventeen By Grace McGeehee

Seventeen Lives Lost Today. The headline echoes through empty hallways and classrooms, across abandoned football fields. It punctures our hope-filled, youthful hearts with sharp fragments of fear, but it calls us to action. Seventeen is youth and life and a gift. It is a dream that becomes a memory, and it is precious and fragile. Seventeen is not loss and a nightmare and broken dreams that shatter on the floor. Although we know that we cannot put those pieces back together, We have our own dream that we can stop it from happening again. It is not my dream or your dream or their dream. It is our dream that we can only find together. So let us dance under the lights of youthfulness without fear. Let us be seventeen, let us be sixteen, let us be fifteen, let us be young. Because this generation, we will take action. We are taking action. And our dream is that we won’t have to do it alone.

Sage Gaia Boyer

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