Baila Elkin is in the 7th grade at the Lubavitch Cheder Day School. She is on a gymnastics team with Highland Gymnastics. She is an A student with special interest in Math and Navi (and dikduk). She has taken an interest in beading and turned it into making jewelry. She is in her third year of violin lessons. She attends sibshops by Arc at the JCC and she has a book of poems that she has been adding to since her preschool years.
Poetry, Grades 7 - 9: Second Place
If I Could Wish - Baila Elkin
If I could wish for anything,
I'd wish to be a bird,
I wouldn't care if people said,
"Now, dear, don't be absurd."
I wouldn't care if people said,
"Now, dear, that's just not right."
I'd fly away into the sky,
I'd fly right out of sight.
If I could wish for anything,
I'd wish to be two flies,
I wouldn't care if people said,
"Now, dear, don't fantasize."
I wouldn't care if people said,
"You're one, you can't be two."
I'd fly away and then I'd say,
"Oh, yes, I can! So - foo!"
If I could wish, I'd wish and wish,
So many things to be,
But today, maybe, I'll sit and think,
Of how nice it is to just be me.