“Watching you drift away like balloons.” “You are a dot against the cumulonimbus clouds.” Ellen Zhang drives a stake into my heart her poem, “Letting Go.” She discusses loss. Loss maybe of a lover, or maybe someone that you loved. It is an extremely relatable poem, and threw me into a tornado of memories.
    Everyone has someone in their memory that is no longer down on earth with them. Maybe it’s a friend from elementary school lost in the transition to middle school. Maybe it’s an uncle who died of cancer, or a grandmother passed away from old age. The fact that this poem is universally meaningful is what makes it fantastic. Writing something that can strike meaning with millions if not billions of people is not easy to do at all. Great job, Ellen.