Human Misconceptions

why is there a stairway to heaven,

and a highway to hell.

my asthma doesn’t like stairs that much,

and i can’t drive on my own.

is there anywhere for me?

 

Alexa Bunn is a high school senior in Selkirk, Manitoba, She has had two poems previously published in her high school literary magazine ‘Mercy Street’. Alexa identifies with her traditional Ojibway heritage as indigenous in Canada.