Gaby Moreno’s message to her teenage self: ‘It all turned out just fine’

In the late 1990s, when Gaby Moreno was 17, she sat in a classroom in her native Guatemala and penned a poem. Originally written in Spanish, it has lines emblematic of teenage longing for change and a realized selfhood: “Maybe the wind will roar more violently today. … Maybe at this point I don’t know where I’m going.”