Old Oak Wood

• Antony Etges, Grade 10, Mountain Heights School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

A flash of swift light
The sky stomach rumbled
Poisoned with fright
The old house crumbled

Its owner long gone
Left on its last leg
Dead bush upon its lawn
Rotten stilts under its bed

There the old house stood
Twisted and torn
The aged rotten wood
Its door tired and worn

Past memories fade
Its future drawn
In its shallow grave
Nothing left to mourn