I….

I am water the
purest, liar the foulest,
snow the coldest, love
the warmest.
I want riches for me,
pleasure & peace for
all, death for love.
I know all things,
all things I know,
getting, deserving, two
different things.
I come from a
land far away,
right down the street
in the greenhouse.
I have seen all
things, no one has
seem me, foulest, fairest,
ho, hee hee.

Sophia Sabeh, age 10
Berkeley, California
Cragmont School
Teacher: John Oliver Simon (Poetry Inside Out)