Editorial poem

Fourteen-year-old Masha Yurkevich, an eighth-grade student at Windham Middle School, has submitted the following poem. May her positive perspective and wisdom inspire you to live a life of meaning and peace.

                   

If I will...

By Masha Yurkevich

If I will have wrinkles,

let them be from too much smiling.

If I will have bad vision,

let it be from looking at good for too much.

If I will be starved,

let it be from me feeding all you the good I've had.

If I will have broken bones,

let them be broken because I have taken the pain that would've gone to you.

If I will be weak,

let me be weak from being too strong.

When I will die,

let me die because I have done enough good here.