School

• Lea Zeestraten, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2009

Lead pounding forehead bears
Ceaseless chatter blinding
Symbols circling, laughter yearning
Brightnes is the blinding

Emerald dresses on coathangers
Shadow in winter's sun
Swaying armsl with crystal charms
Promises left undone

Piercing call shatters glass
Sowing to ground the shards
People warned with masks adorned
The which their secret guards

Rising shield to nature's gift
Chains on treasure, far away
Freedom seeks to mountain peaks
Wings aglow at break of day.