Before Us

by Cleo Bogart, age 6
Before Us Cleo is six-and-a-half years old. She is very drawn to themes of nature and family and likes to write poems and fiction stories that reflect on the world around her. In her spare time, Cleo enjoys coloring and playing with her baby sister, Stevie.

“Before we / Before us / Before we were alive, / This was a world”

Before we

Before us

Before we were alive,

This was a world

A nature world

One wide and true

With hearts breaking

And the moon

Moving through the trees.

But it was all moved to get us glowing through the trees ourselves.

The end…


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