Poetry, Ilana Drake
you can pretend
that your world,
my world, is
a picture book,
illustrations of
flowers and
sunshine and
windows that
look into
the stars
but your world
spins faster than
the earth rotates
each hour because
what is a blank
slate, with no
words, can
become filled
so quickly
so your question
served as a
reminder that
your world is
moving like a
u-haul truck,
going too fast
on the highway,
with no brakes
and i want to,
i need to,
i cannot not,
catch up to you
Ilana Drake is nineteen years old and is a sophomore at Vanderbilt University. Her work appears in Blue Marble Review, Bright Lite Magazine, Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine, Flare Journal, and other literary magazines and publications. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.