Oasis

Brief Explanation: The first stanza is about a small art piece that I did with the motif and theme of leaves being washed down the sewers, it has a double meaning about education washing away our creativity through the rain, and in the end, we only have a small space to hold ourselves in comfort. The second stanza is about the golden laurel that the seniors seek after, the IB diploma, but seeing how in this age it slowly becomes more and more useless, and in the end, gold doesn’t shine anymore. The speechless words are about another poem that I wrote with strange formatting with as few words as possible, it’s reflective of how little students have a say in their lives at the moment.