Heat

• Richard Le, Grade 11, Melbourne High School
• Poetry
• 2017

Excellence Award in the 'Spread The Word 2017' competition

Child of the sun
Baking in an endless, barren prison
Insides writhing and mind sizzling.
Salvation is present, though
Not from divine deities
But in the hands of the night's progeny
Living in decadence under the horizon
Squandering their blessings that
Were bought with Mother's harvested organs.
The child,
Born by the fiery heat,
Will perish under it.
Existence fading away,
As the earth rotates on.