“The Story”

Inside my box are my memories,

not just any memories but the important ones –

sad, happy and mad.

Inside the box I have stories of each memory,

what I felt and what it was like.

That box contains the story of my life.

It started the day I was born

and to this day it is still going.

When will my story end?

That will be the day I die.

When I pass away someone will tell my story

and someone else will start their story.

When it ends, it continues, story after story.

No one knows when their story will end

but when it does, everyone in this room

will have their own story that someone else is telling.

Scarlet Esparaza-Pasos is a student at Captain Cooper Elementary School. This poem caught the attention of Patrice Vecchione, who is the poet-in-residence at Captain Cooper.