Spencer Watson Seupel

He Is Gone

In seventh grade, some of the other kids at school were extremely cruel to Spencer. I got so angry about it, I withdrew Spencer from the public school and homeschooled him for eighth grade.

That year, Spencer wrote this poem in a class he was taking with some other homeschoolers. When I asked him who this poem was about, he said he did not know.

The rain drums,

       like horses running.

I feel navy blue.

He is gone.

The rain falls,

     like running horses.

                                                     -- Spencer Seupel