SG Teen Poetry Spotlight Featuring Caison Crawford

By Caison Crawford

Tempered Glass

I'm hiding behind tempered glass

Longing to survive fears impact

I’ll leave this earth without a scratch

Resistant to life's cracks

So temper temper this tempered glass

Can withstand your childish tantrums

Enduring even my troubling outburst

And frightening anthems

Fear crawls right through

The glass I intended to

Protect me from the threatening thoughts that evoke my temper

I chase an inner peace that can console me

But I fail every time

Oh, Wile E. Coyote

Will I spend my life attempting to catch the same thing?

And if I catch it, then what?

Will I be nothing more than a dog chasing its own tail

Entailing a further desire to obtain the impossible

I see the calm

When I make eye contact with the moon

Uncovering winter's veil

Taking the wind out my sails

A prerequisite for the summer to prevail

Brightening my darkened mindset

Seeing the bright sides peering through the tempered glass

So I ask myself “who am I really protecting?”

Others? Or myself?

I'm running down roads I recently ran on

I'm glad it's night

With Gladys Knight pumping life through my headphones

Cancelling the noise of fears lullaby

The moons adjacent to the stars

My girl do look good in the moonlight

That's one observation I do get right

As of now it's too late to tamper with this glass

I know now I’m not protecting myself

I'm protecting her from my temper

Until I can learn to appreciate what I have

While learning to let go

So when my feelings get low

I'll remember I am both the match and the candle

About Caison:

My name is Caison Crawford. I am a 16 year who currently attends Providence St. Mel. I developed a passion for writing poetry and songs in my freshman year of high school and have been doing it ever since then. To me, poetry expresses an outlet to get all of my pent up thoughts and emotions out to the world. Doing that gives me a sense of release from the frustration and sadness of life can dish out. Without poetry, I'm not sure who I would be right now. My desires now are to show my poetry with those who feel similar to how I do or did so they can relate to me and find a feeling of comfort knowing that they aren't alone.

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