I was asked,
“Man or Bear?”
Obviously, Man.
Bear would
maul you,
kill you,
keep you.
But Man…
I was told,
“If you were 20, I’d take you home
and we’d go to bed.
You know what happens next.”
I was 16.
He was 72.
Man.
I was told,
“You should watch out
when you walk alone at night.
You never know
what a
Man
could do.”
Man…
I was told,
“A Man kills women
and keeps their
skin,
bones,
breasts,
to wear as his own.”
Man…
Maybe Bear would
maul me,
kill me,
keep me,
but so would
Man.
Alyssa Grace lives in Percé, QC. She attends Gaspé Polyvalent School in Gaspé Quebec as a secondary 5 student. In her free time, she enjoys trying out new art forms and listening to different kinds of music. When she was younger, she enjoyed writing short stories but after learning poetry in high school, she quickly gravitated towards it.