Reflections winner: 'Together we can live'

Editor's note: The following is the winning entry for "Outstanding Interpretation" in the middle school literature category of the Bigfork PTA's 2011 Reflections Art Scholarship Program. Read more about the program in "PTA displays student work at museum."

When we are alone

We cry

We are scared

We are uncertain

When we are together

We laugh

We love

We live

When we go alone

We have doubts

Nobody encourages us

Nobody to tell us we can

When we go together

We feel confident

We are told to do our best

We feel that we can and will

When we are alone

We think of the times that we were together

We think of the people we've loved

We miss those times of happiness

When we are together

We have the times that make life worth living

We fall in love with the ones we're supposed to be with

We make those times of happiness

And we never forget them

Together we can laugh

Together we can love

Together we can make life worth living

And live it to the fullest

And when teh time comes to meet the man upstairs

Together we can die happy

Knowing that we've done all we can

And knowing that our children and our children's children will lead a life just as happy