Different From Dickinson
by and published in Edition Five of Pomegranate
there is some comfort in being nobody
ghosts can be beautiful, and silence is golden
but there is no good at all in being a bit of somebody,
creation’s crumb, God’s unwanted dessert –
having made me, and set me with much care
on a spinning blue plate, He rolled up his sleeves
and then the phone rang,
and I sat there, quivering like underdone jello,
knowing I would know I could have been someone
knowing that for eternity, when I called
He would always be on
the other line.
Eleanor Ellis
Eleanor Ellis is 17 years old and lives in Salem, Oregon in the United States. She is fond of hiking in forests, singing in other languages, improving her Spanish, and playing badminton. She has been published twice in Teen Ink and received second place in the high school division of the 2008 Oregon Student Poetry Contest, as well as being mentioned honorably several times.