Tangle

• Marina Ner, Grade 6, John the Baptist Primary School
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

Twisting and squirming; escape and reveal.
The pressure consumes your time, energy, creating exhaustion.
The writhing and suffering continues for minutes throughout.
Don't lose hope, contemplate. The situation is desperate, it may not last much longer.
You lose hope; pick yourself up, ponder.
Solutions exposed, confusion; dispatched.
Fear, anxiety, concern, nausea; breathe, let it all go.
You're untangled now.