"Waves" by Kaylynn, 15 | April 2019

Each cold, wet ripple of water freezes into beautiful ice in winter. It’s slippery and slick, cold and hard. Then that all goes away and it becomes wet and fragile, soft and warm, just like water. People try to be hard, beautiful and cold but every person I know breaks down into wet, fragile, soft, warm water. They let their emotions out no matter who is watching, no matter who is by them.

About Kaylynn: "I was a sweet child but then, in 8th grade I was bullied a lot and got transferred to a different middle school where it went downhill from there. I started having trouble with drug abuse and running away and then got sent to Northwest Passage. I got help with my addiction and have gone through AODA group and now I came out to my family as transgender, that’s how I got to be Kaylynn and I’ve changed my ways."