Today we are featuring Inklings Book Contest 2022 Writer Quinn Brenner. Quinn finished 6th grade this past school year and wrote a poem called “Somehow.” Quinn said that her favorite element is “the use and insertion of ‘somehow’ at different parts of the poem to make people stop and reflect.” Enjoy!
SOMEHOW
by Quinn Brenner
Humanity is warped in no other way
You couldn’t explain
Not even if you tried
Somehow
A little slip-up
A small mistake
And it’s all over
Reputation
Possibility
Opportunities
Somehow
All gone
Snatched before your eyes
Taken away like our future
By those big leaders
Who said “Not our problem”
Who left it to us
The youth
The young ones
The weak ones
Weak
That’s what we are
Weak
Small
And now it’s our problem
Somehow
Wait a minute?
Where is the spot to sign it off?
Why do you not ask for consent?
Why can’t I sign my name?
Is everyone really like this?
I hate this
Somehow
I’m disappointed
But who else would be
“Because who am I if not exploited?”
I shouldn’t be
But somehow
In this world
Money is power
And time is money
And a lot of wasted time
Because people don’t realize
Until it’s too late…
Yet in this warped reality
It’s become
The ordinary
Somehow.
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