A Journey To Freedom

• Lauren Oates, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2011

Like a bird lost in flight
Like the ocean breeze carrying a sailor across the seas
Like a lone cloud drifting in the sky
Her eyes fall upon what she cannot see

As though in a dream state, her eyes flutter to be awake
Searching herself, she slowly breathes
Hope, Joy; what she could not fathom
Lost between dream and reality
What is she to believe?
Faith? Surely that was lost too

Although her eyes could not perceive
Her solemn heart felt what her eyes couldn’t believe
She was free.