This is a poem from our former Editor-in-Chief, Costanza Maio. Costanza will be spending a year abroad in Spain. Aptly, this poem was inspired by Pablo Neruda’s “Poesía.” The Harriton Banner wishes Costanza the best of luck in all her endeavors. ¡Buena Suerte!

I was released.
I don’t know how,
I don’t know where,
But there I was –
While, at the same time,
There I could be no longer –
As what inside me lived
Enclosed,
Suddenly burst.

I screamed
With the passion of a newborn
Just revealed a world
I thought I’d already made my own
That embraced me,
Even now.

And I,
Small amongst
The million blades of grass around me,
Radiating with the warmth
Only possible from a thousand suns,
Felt words and poetry jetting,
Spiraling, rushing
Out of my body,
As if possessed
By the fiercest will to live,

I broke free into the world.