We Are Quiet

by Lucy Sinclair

Grade 11

Now the muted music comes on warm
I lean back in my seat and watch the stars
In brake lights and in roadside signs
With half-closed sleeping eyes
I hold my mother's fingertips
and fall into the night

(Honorable Mention Finalist, 20th Annual Teen Poetry Contest, Beverly Public Library, 32 Essex Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. Readings & Awards Ceremony, April 26, 2016.)