Voice of the Student - January 20, 2023

The Landscape Of My Mind

What can be more personal than the landscape of your mind?

With the mountain and the hill and the rivers far behind

You climb over adversities and swim through tears

The shortest of journeys takes you so many years

Mountains of worry, grey and tall

Snow falling in flurries, blinding like a wall

The wall is your stress turning your landscape a fog

So thick, to progress, you need to move in a jog

Running can only travel so far when you feel you can’t move

Shoes pushing off gravel when your legs don't approve

Rivers of despair, freezing and unending

Drowning and unaware that the flow forever extending

The water rises with every sob taken

Your heart begins to throb, and your body shaken

Cold travels through your bones in acceleration

Blinded by the light, a final breath of desperation

Glowing like a jewel that sun above the hill

With your head beneath the pool, it all begins to still

Freed from your prison you laugh at the sight

The water no longer risen, and your eyes can see the light

Gone are the mountains and the hills and the rivers

And the frigid encounters that gave you the shivers

The Sun is your hope, warm like a blanket

Its light is a scope relieving you from your minds casket

You climb over adversities and swim through tears

The shortest of journeys takes you so many years

Arabella Ashby is a senior at Ulysses High School. She is the daughter of Rick and Terria Ashby.

In collaboration with Ulysses High School teacher Jodi Pfingsten, the Ulysses News will feature a student column. Student writings are submitted by Mrs. Pfingsten after being edited in class. Student subjects and writing styles will vary based on guidelines set forth by Mrs. Pfingsten and the Ulysses News.