Uneven Odds

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Written KATELIN THARP (‘20)
Photography by Lindsay Nelson (‘18)

Somedays.
The darkness has mixed with the pure white.
Either way.
I watch water and ice continue to fight.
They make quite a pair.
Steadily merging unaware.
Even now.
Young, hot, and fiery we are.
Somehow.
We are free.

Everyday.
The moon rises in the blood-soaked sky.
Everyway.
I am bleeding just for a butterfly not to die.
Someday.
I will be free.
Someway.
You will see.
I am not me.

Even so.
Some bathe in silence: their loudest scream.
Why?
The eclipse shadows their hope.
We watch them compete.
They compete so eagerly in fear.

Against uneven odds.