Love's Decree

• Oscar Sikora, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2018

Children scream, mothers mourn
A defying anger fuels the pot
Whistling until it erupts
The kindle fire roars its flame
Another shatters, more are corrupt
The hate grows stronger and cannot be tamed.
Beauty lies within the sphere of fog
People cuddling extinct of lechery
People trusting with hearts of gold
Extinguishing the burning fire
Love puts hate onto hold.
Staring at the shadow
The hate reignites from love
and as we sit under the same tree,
the offspring of hate cuts it down.
Burning fire roars
Gashing flames linger more
All is lost until love kisses me
I look at her and saw to see
Hate grinds on love’s decree