Tower and Town, November 2020

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If My Suitcase Were Stronger

If my suitcase were stronger… 
I would put the whole world inside. 
Not all of it: leave out death, 
balloons going POP, 
danger, darkness. 
I would keep the rainbows, 
the blue sky, the singing birds, 
the countryside, its tall trees 
and its clean air. 
  
If my suitcase were stronger still, 
I’d carry silence; extinguish traffic, 
crying and screaming. 
For them I would risk the world,
tip the suitcase and show them the way out. 
  
And if there was not an inch of space left, 
I would keep the peace 
by carrying a spot of stardust 
in my pocket. 
A moonbeam in the fold of my jacket 
and a rocket
for when we must travel to the ends of the Earth, 
to give my suitcase to someone else. 

Becky Tuner (Year 8)