Last Night

• Jaron Tia, Grade 4, Burwood East Primary School
• Poetry
• 2020

Excellence Award in the 'The Inside Story 2020' competition

Last night the past screamed a plight,
Such a tragedy, such a fight
His hair was bedraggled and
His clothes posed
A silent hate lingering out

Last night a fight broke out,
He woke, took, many hooked,
He stole our men like a fox,
And words as strong as an ox

He came, he saw, he took, he went,
And ravaged every town he went
His servants lived under grand tents
Men were scared, speared, and never spared.
Those were the ways of Genghis Khan.