"Would"

Tonight we attended a program about the school district's art and writing magazine, Valley Visions. Every year high school students submit their art work or writing and, if lucky, it is published in this magazine. This year 250 art pieces and 350 writing pieces were submitted. 55 of each were published. James submitted work during his sophomore year and wasn't chosen. He submitted three pieces this year...a prose piece and two poems. This poem was chosen.

Would 

I would write of a shadow

Or a great few words of a truth

That weren't seen before

I would write of the cracked canvas 

Of a girl's face

Or the thin vastness

Of a mountain river

I would write of the great things

I've seen

While remembering the dust

If I could see past these walls 

I would write you into existence

And create your hand

So I could take it in mine

And with the other

Write of my escape