Charlotte Rauner is a 14-year-old poet from Englewood NJ. Poetry is her passion, her hobby, and her love. She won a Silver Medal for Poetry (2010) from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She has appeared at live venues to read her work and was a participant in Spark 10. This poem might be particularly meaningful to a young girl and also to an older woman or a middle-aged man or almost anyone at some point in time.
maybe it’s back
By Charlotte Rauner
It happened
yesterday
right before
it
left.
It stayed
after
he
made
it come.
This morning
it came
right before
I thought
about her.
But maybe
it’s back
to stay,
hopefully.
Maybe it
will wash away
those nightmares.
Maybe this smile
won’t leave
this time.
I wish,
I hope
that maybe
it’s back.
