Life And Its Despair

• Robert Blows, Grade 10, Brisbane State High School
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'Write As Rain 2014' competition

To love to die, to see the sky
to mourn, to weep, to never sleep
as time does pass us by
our memories are ours to keep

To long for glade and brook
to hear the call of the raven
All there for those who look
Who strive for a safe haven

From sorrow and despair
rife within our hearts and heads
lurking in a shadowed lair
hiding amongst the dead

Only one hope for the noble and brave
for they themselves are theirs to save