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May 16, 2026

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


What is Humanity?

By: Abdul Kante

Watkins Mill High School

Grade: 11

Montgomery County, MD

Humanity is a fragile thread,
woven through hope and fear,
a song we hum beneath our breath
to prove that we are here.

It’s the hand that lifts another up,
the tear we do not hide,
the spark that glows in quiet hearts
when darkness gathers wide.

It’s laughter shared across the world,
through tongues may sound unlike,
the courage to begin again
each time the storms may strike.

Humanity is never one–
It’s many all the same,
A flame that burns in every soul,
and answers to no name.