Outro: Reflection

• Audrey Kuan, Grade 7, Canberra Grammar School
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

You stare at me with loathing, bitterness and distorted hatred,
My eyes shattered memories, my expression blackened death,
The one to give you nightmares of the unforgivable void,
Like whiplash shadows slashing through lost cities of heaven.
I torture you with the repulsive sight of my ghastly scars,
I’m the one who rips apart your dreams of igniting creativity.
I force you to become a studying machine anguished of love,
Your raven blood tears tremble to the sound of society’s heart.
Past windows, past droplets of ablazing tears,
I am a silent monstrous rage of fear, always there, never fair.
Seconds tick as carnage and floods of excruciating lava flow,
Tsunamis, rippling scorching desolation all scream in a flash.
When you stare at me in your fractured, cracked mirror,
You blame me: your reflection, showing the lies and agony,
I am who you see me to be with the fire that rages,
To love yourself, to embrace and glow with embers within.