“Renew” by Sam Yu

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The blade performs its quickest work

Cutting them down like weeds

Without complaint or silver irk.

They will not know what came before,

For that has been silenced.

Nothing is left no bones or gore,

So they will grow on barren land,

The land that boils and bleeds

By the invisible, grey hand.

Soon, they will grow as tall as trees,

And in the clear wind,

bend And twirl their thin frames in the breeze.

The blade will come then, to cut them,

Leaving behind the seeds

That will grow again all the same.

Sam Yu (he/him) is a freshman at the University of Michigan. He is considering pursuing business. Sam is very excited for LSWA, for he has written a few too many poems to get here.

Sam describes this piece as "the reaping and rebirth of a continuous cycle."