Dear Readers: On occasion, I get the chance to read works of students in San Pedro. When I read Amy Epperhart's "Moth," I enjoyed it so much that I asked her if I could post it on my blog. She said: "Sure." Amy attends the Port of Los Angeles High School and has future plans to become an archaeologist and participate at dig sites either in England's Stonehenge or near the Egyptian pyramids. Here is her poem:

The Moth

I am a moth

Plain and hardly visible

Working hard each day

Flitting around in a frenzied whirl

Trying to learn all I can learn

Trying to accomplish all I possibly can

But I forget, I'm only one small moth

In the grand scheme of life

So I close my eyes

And fold my wings

To climb one leafy branch at a time

Each day, I grow and learn

My wings grow a little larger

A little more colorful

A little more unique

I am a moth

Ever smiling. I spread my vivid wings

And let the fluid currents of life

Take me to my dreams