Chycas Baldwin

Quincy High School

Class of 1994

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Chycas Baldwin - Class of 1994 - Quincy High School

First Name	Chycas
Last Name	Baldwin
Graduation Year	Class of 1994
Gender	Male
Relationship Status	In a Relationship
About Me	I’ve never lived next to the pulse of the lake (until I set foot down the side of Chicago) breathing in through the streets and out through the trees welcoming the cool of the wet, numbing snow. It lets my mind slip into thinking it’s clean as if to personally forgive my mistakes. “But what have you done to forgive your mistakes? ” Did I ask this? Or is that the voice of the lake? Some days, not even does it appear clean, worn down from its tall standing neighbor, Chicago. It scrapes at the sky, asking it for more snow to stick to and freeze the trunks of the trees. If I were a branch on one of these trees incapable of making a single mistake, I’d grab at the sky as it shook out the snow and grow my roots thick till they tasted the lake. But I wouldn’t bend to the force of Chicago that’s constantly keeping me from being clean. And what does it mean to try to be clean? I don’t understand the stillness of the trees when they’re being attacked by the size of Chicago as if to glorify the city’s mistakes that glisten like stars at night on the lake before it all froze and was covered with snow. Ah! To imagine how long there’s been snow. How can something this old still feel so clean and dance through the wind that swoops in from the lake? Is it the kneading by the spiny branches on trees trusting that there will be no more mistakes that leaves these the only pure thing in Chicago? Here comes the snow that seeks out the trees Am I now clean? Where are my mist...(read more)