Sonnet ~ A Ghost In The World

• Ellie Miller, Grade 8, Irene McCormack Catholic College
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Read Write Repeat 2015' competition

No one speaks to him, not even a glance
he sits alone at lunch under the trees
always alone, no one gives him a chance
he drifts past like a gentle Autumn breeze

Floats down roads watching the world pass by
his life is on a long, endless repeat
he can never grow old, can never die
as he glides down another crumpled street

Every day, the silence becomes too loud
as he is treated like a foreigner
for once, he wants to be part of the crowd
and not be abandoned in the corner

He lives his life in a dark, constant hole
a ghost in the world, an unspoken soul.