Anguished Perplexities Of The Grieving Mind

• Liam Castles, Grade 12, Corinda State High School
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

Snatched you away from the grip of brutality,
took from your heart insecure instability,
made you unwanted; your pure invalidity,
impossibility: your new rigidity.
You stand within a world destined for change,
growing and flailing; they stay for the same.
Maybe my one day will save you from pain,
greeting the light, you're sheltered from rain.
Life holds a shell after concord expulsion,
wading through shadows with loathing repulsion,
sick to the stomach with unjust ambition,
seeding my lies; self-deploring cognition.
Though however dark, unbelievably hollow,
you may be feeling in decades to follow,
know that I'm holding you all of the time,
in the anguished perplexities of my grieving mind. I love you.