For Thee

• Meng Die Angela Wang, Grade 10, Wellington Secondary College
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Read Write Repeat 2015' competition

Off, over the hill shall one press take. But darkness overcomes what light can make.
We are blinded by our own vision, taken down by someone else’s decision.
What is common becomes what is real. We’ve lost interest in our own ideal.
Can one single press change what sight brings? Oblivion.
Just take a look at the real things.
Turn around, take what is right. Believe moral and truth, not the sight.
Our eyes are covered by dishevelled excuses. But future depends on the path one chooses.
Bring love and generosity. Give health and cordiality.
What is done right is open to be,
For them, for me, for thee.
If one cannot try and will not will, one can simply just stand still.
But caution for what stillness brings. Unhappiness, unruliness, and upsetting things.
Ugliness is not vision, see. Ugliness is within those who let it be.
Sorriness, mistakes, and all, is not what should make one fall.
Forgive, learn to forgive… and change, not for me, not for them,
But for thee.