Her love and her hope
Carry with her until death
Carry with us now
A blue sky, no clouds
A gentle ocean, so still
Only happiness
A powerful heat,
A murderous, blinding flash
All that is left, scars
Their soft, gentle wings
Hover over Sadako
And fill her with hope
Lexi Longo is 12 years old and a 6th grader at the Tower Hill School in Delaware. She loves Shakespeare, enjoys reading and writing and dreams of someday writing an novel, likely about Shakespeare.
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