A Duality Of One

• Uzair Rizwan, Grade 12, Alpha Omega Senior College
• Poetry
• 2021

Excellence Award in the 'Play On Words 2021' competition

Let us wilt
Into wisps of snow, topping glacier tops,
And wintry flurry drops - cascading down streams,
Crystallising into snowflakes and steaming into swirls
Of You
Let us crumble
Into cinders of ash, brushing crimson craters,
With flames of whiplash and magmatic, volcanic cones
Which bury us, brazen -
Into an inferno, (A fiery hurricane)
Which mars you and chars you
And cremates,
Our dreams
Let us meld
Into two halves of a whole,
Let us become, you and I, I and you - each other