Amber

For the next generation

History is amber,

Events frozen in golden glass.

Beautiful, but often tempered.

Dangerous, the fuel for all our past.

Amber becomes a honeytrap,

And what we perceive as truth

Often bites hard back

If we pass lies onto our youth.

Amber creates confusion 

If what it preserves is anomaly.

And with all this illusion 

What can be taken honestly?

Amber preserves and deceives,

Teaches, and yet often still taunts.

Everything we believe,

Known, and yet often still lost.

Be careful what you preserve.

Always chase the truth.

Change history for the better.

Pass facts onto our youth.

Author: Brenna Farrell

Brenna Farrell is a 10th grade high school student at the Classical Academy of Sarasota. She is an avid reader, a budding artist, and a Star Wars enthusiast. She competes at the national level of the U.S. Academic Decathlon. She loves to spend her time with her gardening club and artist guild, where she is expanding her skills in writing. She also loves to volunteer at her church and travel on grand adventures with her family. She is pursuing her dream of being an astrophysicist.