Ella Es - Skylar Dannan

I am a rising sophomore from Cazenovia, New York with an intended biochemistry major. I love all things artsy, especially drawing, music, and poetry! I’m in Pitch Please Acapella here on campus, and lift weights almost daily in my free time. I love writing and thinking romantically and taking inspiration from nature. Something that greatly inspires me to write is my belief that finding beauty in everything and romanticizing life is one of the best ways to stay motivated and stable in our complicated and difficult world. 

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If you were a romantic,

Every day a different flower

From the Earth for you I’d pick

A flower every hour

For you to braid into your hair,

If not, I’d braid it into mine.

And for you I’d keep it there.

For you I’d keep a blade of grass

Wilted by sun,

If you thought it made me prettier,

I’d never let it come undone.

It’d root and rot and grow as you

Have managed to maintain

It’d wrap so tight my skin turned blue

But it would feed into the vain,

The vain the vein the vain idea

That you might soon love me,

But though, I know the day can’t come

You make me the romantic I dream to be.