Gone
written by: Peyton Moser
There were dozens of you,
your voices mangled by the skeletons you became
because one decided that dozens had no value.
There were hundreds of you
that we cannot find because you were smothered by the flame-
hundreds that we cannot find, actions we can’t undo.
There were thousands of you
and you lost your life, your love, your voice, your name
and thousands of voices cried and died all for the comfort of a few.
There were millions of you
and you all had worth, but they set you all aflame,
and now hundreds of you and thousands of you
and millions of you have turned the same pale hue.
Peyton Moser was born in 2008 and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She attends Southwest Covenant High School as Junior, and she’s ready to take on the world. Her writings reflect her thoughts on people, ideas, experiences, works, places, and feelings. She hopes one day to be a renowned author of the next Great American Novel, but she has to actually start writing to do that.
