Going Down the Canyon | Teen Ink
  1. Home
  2. Poetry
  3. Free Verse
  4. Going Down the Canyon

Going Down the Canyon

September 21, 2015
By wangjiayi045 BRONZE, Lake Forest, California
More by this author
wangjiayi045 BRONZE, Lake Forest, California
1 article 2 photos 0 comments
View profile

Take a helicopter and a yacht
let's go down the Canyon.
Riptide runs by and cliff stays still.
It has been so long,
for a dream to come true.
The Canyons, they would never know;
Why human is not as immortal as them?
Why human's life is so short?
It's not our fault, really.
We get older every second.
A younger self's memory become such a blur.
Please don't forget us,
vulnerable, mortal, beautiful creatures,
has been here before.
One day we will be too old to walk, too old to see.
Their world still remains the same.
Always is
and always will be.

© Heather R.

The author's comments:

When I went to visit Grand Canyon National Park for the second time, I saw a billboard on the way there. It showed a helicopter above the canyon, and read "Bucket List, check". We want things done before we die, but no matter how we change, the natural world is still the same.

Post a comment
Submit your own

Similar Articles

Previous Next
Poetry
Pretentious
By Kimora Braithwaite
Indian Trail, NC
Poetry
Silence
By bitty09 SILVER
Claymont, Delaware
bitty09 SILVER, Claymont, Delaware
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
View profile
Poetry
Connected
By emolover95 GOLD
Park City, Utah
emolover95 GOLD, Park City, Utah
13 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

View profile
Poetry
I hate splash water on the lack of there-forth
By Anonymous
Poetry
The Protectors' of the World
By Arbys GOLD
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Arbys GOLD, Dobbs Ferry, New York
15 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."Edgar Allan Poe
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~Colin Powell" ~ Colin Powell
"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."-Paul Valery

View profile
Poetry
Motley Crue: I really hear you
By Arbys GOLD
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Arbys GOLD, Dobbs Ferry, New York
15 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."Edgar Allan Poe
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~Colin Powell" ~ Colin Powell
"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."-Paul Valery

View profile

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.