Junior Asher Mai is an ardent reader of John Green and a recent expert on Robert Frost (thanks to his AP English Language Synthesis Project), so when he found a line of Frost quoted in the newest John Green book, Turtles All the Way Down, Asher felt inspired to write the following poem.
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”–Robert Frost, as quoted by John Green
By Asher Mai
A red autumn leaf had fallen
And the wind had blown
He had flown seven thousand miles
To the other side of the Pacific Ocean
It was a path that he had chosen
He enjoyed the new environment
And learned to be independent
He had an amazing experience
An experience that he would
never have dreamed to experience
Summer had come
It’s time to go home
But his spiral of consciousness
had started to tighten
Because it’s a path he had not yet chosen
A future that was not yet known
Editor: Makena Behnke
I think knowing Asher makes me Love this poem.