The Dark Side Of Winter

• Eleni Diacos, Grade 9, GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN COLLEGE
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

I am the dark side of winter
I scare lost souls with the whispers in the forest
The whispers are the screams of people before them
Do not enter this forest for the mist will consume you
Nothing behind, nothing ahead
I am the dark side of winter
The white snow that falls upon the ground
Contrasts with the dark creatures that are lurking inside
There is no light within the forest for it is swallowed by the
demons that live inside
I am the dark side of winter
This forest echoes the last moments of the people inside
Within, there are dark creatures and shadows and eeriness
I cursed this land with sorrow and despair,
With screams and unnerving whispers
For I am the dark side of winter