Castle

• Jihad Yassine, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2021

In the halls with echoes of silence
With walls dripping crystal clear resin
Forming and deforming
blood petals flowing with delay
Beats of a drum lost in endless corridors
Filled with horrors of dreams
Stained glass windows
With water deterring a waterproof lining
The groaning of doors
Translated into painful creeks
The tumultuous tumbling stone
Shattering the foundation holding everything up
White ivory pillars struggling
Carrying all that is above and below them
A throne room with spectral quiet
Bowing down towards the empty throne, with a hanging crown