Ink

• Charlotte Ives, Grade 8, Monivae College
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'The Text Generation 2014' competition

She wrote to him in ink
An ink of a different kind
Because it leaked from her heart
But trickled from her eyes
It never left stains
Just a pain inside her chest
And when she finished each letter
She would crumple into a heap
For she knew that every letter she cried
He would never keep