Maya Lee

My name is Maya Lee, and I’m currently a sophomore at SJVA. I love traveling and learning about the world, and after graduation, I plan to study international relations or political science. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved reading and writing. Some of my favorite genres are literary fiction, historical fiction, and biographies. I love reading because it’s an escape from the craziness of our world, and it can do everything from transporting you across the world to exposing you to someone’s thoughts and experiences.

There’s no place like home

Three thousand miles far today

Where life is very good

Paper chain on wall

Curls around in a circle

Yellow, blue, and pink

We do need coffee

The silence is very loud

So can the phone ring

East Coast colleges and West Coast dive bars

Similar and yet not alike at all

Deep down, we all want to be superstars

So we’re always willing to take the fall

We always seem to want more out of life

And we’re not wrong for that, life is too short

But life in your hometown cuts like a knife

So leaving the place is the best resort

In the kitchen, there’s heights marked in pencil

I think it will seem empty once I’m gone

With nothing there but spoons and utensils

And everyone I’ve ever known withdrawn

It may not be easy to leave the nest

But sometimes, leaving is all for the best

Lovely to be with you here in the rain

Our good coats got soaked so we ran inside

Autumn in upstate New York always came

And if I wasn’t yours I would have died

We danced in the kitchen and sang till dawn

Laughed and talked endlessly of bigger things

When reality comes, will you be gone?

Or will you stay and patch my broken wings?

In summer we flew over the ocean

For how long wasn’t something decided

Your face lit up as we chased a notion

Then I knew that our worlds had collided

Life is a dream now and I never knew

That someone was waiting, someone like you