Intrusive Thoughts
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Bianca Thomas, Grade 12, Warners Bay High School -
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Poetry
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2018
Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition
Headlights stream towards my own from the blackness.
Fierce gold surrounded by a million shifting halos of heavenly white.
My eyes stray from the darkness of my path,
drawn, quick as moths, to each passing flare.
Time seems to slow as my hands, holding the wheel,
drift to follow the line of my eyes. A camera shuttering.
Each moment lingering into countless frozen frames.
I watch them pass;
A silent scream as the lights collide,
red and blue flames flickering as heaven and hell play tug-of-war with my soul.
Peaceful. Silent. Until a scream pierces my broken body.
My mother crying. My sister, silent at her side.
My brothers absent. Flowers rooting through my skull.
My father’s voice shakes as he says the words, I regret I can’t say back.
“I love you. We love you. I miss you. We all do.”
My hands jerk back, the headlights pass, and darkness overtakes.