crawled out her window to get away
but she never had to leave the roof
that was as far as she need go
Outside, up high, she could see
beyond the fields that sway
and she brought those visions back
through hand and pen to grow
She brought them back, wrote them down
and the words became her proof
that when she put the sights to page
she could start to know
Now I’m double the age of the girl with the pen aloof
Yet I still look back and up to her when I start to lose my way
Author Bio:
Elizabeth Koch, a teacher, mother, and wife, lives with her family and their cat, who barely tolerates them, in the Kansas City, MO area. She has loved putting pen to paper since her early teens when that was the only way to make sense of the world. She falls more in love with poetry every time one of her students discover their own poetic talents. More of her work can be seen at 3ElementsReview.com, and on her blog, www.libsdays.blogspot.com.