Life; A Song

• Zylah Ratajczek, Grade 6, Norman Park State School
• Poetry
• 2022

Finalist in the 'National Treasures 2022' competition

We are like a song:
Highs and lows, Life and Death.
Notes change, right goes wrong,
A single note, a single breath.
A ballad of our story,
Each stanza, a new chapter.
Lyrics, our narrator,
Notes, our sweet captor.
And with our gentle notes,
We can begin another verse.
Remove Protection's coat,
Happiness, we will disperse.
Life will play the young chords,
And Death will play the last.
Beginning and end, light and dark,
We use song to record our past.