Taken Away

• Ciara Walsh, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2013

Nobody talks nobody walks.

Silence in the room until a boom.

Shouting screaming and an urge to get out, but no one does anything because they're in doubt.

Tears’ streaming out everyone’s eyes yet no one dares to say lies.

Time’s up no one can be saved, everyone is enraged.

To be taken away,too many things at a time is a horrible crime.

Everyone is having to bottle up their thoughts because that's what they've been taught.

Hearts in grief locked up until they can be released.

Too far away from home and have no place to freely roam.

The others cry out for help, but all that comes out is a shy voiceless yelp.

The only place they can be happy is in their mind,as no one remembers how to be kind.

Lives and hearts taken away, nothing will ever be the same.