9 weeks at long last
the finale is so close
Light at the end–shine!
Fourth Quarter here, now
dream2write relax and breathe
It’s time to use it all now:
Balance, presence, peace
Enjoy this time as it comes
See the true light shine
Others are not your–
Responsibility
let the test scores be as they may
Believe in yourself
love it–your finale
Passionately
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.
Illustration by Tatyana SafronovaWritten by Gwynn FulcherEdited by Sonia Chintha, Celeste Bloom, Parivash Goff, & Andrea Nevin Friends, it has been twenty-five months since I
I am a woman: pale skinned with dark brown, wavy, frizzy hair. I have sharp facial features. I wear glasses, they are sea-green aqua-marine turquoise
Dawn arrives and your spirals imprint the sky; I coast toward the lemon pink rings that glide tenderly upward It would be easy to slide
I roll past the same ramp opposite the entrance that was the first door that opened my life to this new world and grin at