(This is a poem I wrote on the evening of day 1 at a summer camp.)

[S U N S E T A T T H E L A K E]

Dark Forest
Embracing the refreshing cool
Drifting off to sleep

With laughter and chatting
Stars twinkle in the night sky
Calming silence

The bravest thing you’ll ever do?
Look at me how I look at you
Doing things without wanting to

That’s the bravest thing I ever did
Staring at the sun
after one and a half years
of living in a cave

Going to sleep with a smile
for the first time since ’19
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