You And Me

• Brodie Faul, Grade 8, Burnie High School
• Poetry
• 2013

Excellence Award in the 'Dream Big 2013' competition

Voices screeching, fingers pointing,
A cruel world made for strangers,
Blame is crushing, guilt is haunting.
A prison that no one escapes,
There's nowhere safe for a refugee,
Like you,
Like me.
Loneliness is a monster,
From which you cannot run,
Where you go, already it waits,
Where you hide, already it lurks,
You are my hope in the darkness.
I believe in love because of you,
Together we can be free from sadness,
Because 'you and me' only has room,
For two.