Untitled by Kellyn K. Bartley

The Destination Of Beginnings

In the terminal's hum, the air is thick with the music of a dozen mother tongues.

There is no "standard" here,

only the beautiful friction of different lives brushing against one another at the gate.

Two hundred and fifty years

is iust a heartbeat in the history of wandering, yet look at the tapestry we've stitched:

A grandmother's prayer in Vietnamese meeting a student's laughter in French, both rising toward the same skylight.

Unity is not a choir singing the same note; it is the harmony found when we dare

to let the different chords collide.

To belong is to see your own reflection in a stranger's restless, hopeful eyes.

We are a nation of departures and arrivals, carrying old ghosts and new blueprints.

Under the Orlando sun, under the American stars, we are many stories, breathing together, sheltered by the same wide, unending sky.

Kellyn Bio

Kellyn Bartley, I am 17 years old and I love doing creative things like painting, drawing, sewing, and creating digital art on online games!. I am a rising senior attending West Orange High School. My goal is to enter Valencia finish my associate's degree then transfer into UCF University and graduate with a bachelor's degree in architecture or design.