Darkness

• Lena Benbatta, Grade 6, Westmead Public School
• Poetry
• 2017

Excellence Award in the 'Write Here Write Now 2017' competition

Darkness takes over all who it finds
Darkness reaches all the way inside
Darkness does not give it will only build
Darkness does not take blame for who it has killed
Darkness is a deadly poison
One of bitter flavour and destruction
Darkness is always cabalistic
It makes every impeccable creature go ballistic
Darkness deprives the world of happiness
It makes the world contain no kindness
It makes everything cower in timidity
It makes everything look full of ferocity
Darkness is all of our imagination gone wild
Darkness has no feelings and can not be riled
But darkness like all execrable things has a lock
Every lock needs a key and darkness's key is love