The second-place winner of CHS’ Poem of the Month 2025-2026 competition is Savannah Heathington!

The theme was “time,” and Writers’ Circle members voted on their favorites from an anonymous pool (student judges do not know who wrote each poem).

Savannah writes, “I am in 10th grade at Chester High School. I love to write poems whenever I get a chance. I also love animals. I have two bunnies and two cats of my very own. ”

The Writers’ Circle meets every Thursday, after school, in Miss Hodge’s classroom. Here they share recent work, give each other feedback, and organize the poetry competition. This year, the Writers’ Circle will also be publishing a collection of the winning poems as a printed booklet.

Check back with The Sting for more information on the next Poem of the Month challenge, and be sure to enter the NEW Creative Quarterly – an art and writing contest open to CHS artists of all kinds.

Why Hasn’t It?

by Savannah Heathington

They say it is supposed to get better so why hasn’t it?
They say time heals everything so why hasn’t it?
Why am I still in pain?
I may think about it less but it still kills me when I do
I have no clue
What to do about this pain that’s making me so blue
They knew
That what they did was gonna bruise
Yet they still chose to
They say time heals everything so why not my blues?
Am I hopeless
Am I beyond fix
Because I really don’t get this
I still cry out my eyes every time I think of what they did and why
The amount of times I have cried and thought of why yet;
I am no closer to figuring it out
I am not a bad kid
I get straight A’s
I tried my hardest to obey
But still they threw me away