Marc-Joelitza Montgomery is a writer and Year-2 student at BHSEC Cleveland. She is the recipient of the Literature of the Americas Award in the Spring of 2018. As well as the recipient of the World Literature Award in both the Fall and Spring semester of 2018-2019.
He said said the ocean was beautiful,
But I said that it was terrifying
He said that life was hopeless,
But I said it wasn’t worth disqualifying
He said that music brought him pain,
But I said it was a step towards healing
He said that flowers were full of life,
But I said the process of them dying was appealing
Outlook.
That’s all it is.
We have our high’s and low’s.
What one sees in darkness the other sees in light.
We keep each other balanced as we grow.
A Journal of Writing and Thinking at Bard High School Early College, Cleveland 
I love the simplicity of the poem. I feel like it’s doing what it’s trying to say. We tend to make life complicated by believing there’s a way to it or a certain way people should act, speak, or even love! In reality, life is the opposite of structure and it definitely doesn’t come in just one way of living. Everyone’s life is within them, we all have our own universe. The way we see life is a reflection of that universe in us. So how can we possibly expect that something subject could be lived objectively? And- how boring would that be anyway?
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