Retrieving Hope

• Ayana Bhalla Bhalla , Grade 7, Edgars Creek Secondary College
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'National Treasures 2022' competition

Like feathers our hopes are unfaltering, that alights in the soul
We are freely flying, rising and disintegrating ourselves
It’s mournful and traumatic to see our faith drifting far apart within the dark navy sky
These days are the toughest and worst to bare
Where night never turns into day and our delicate feather soon fades away
We feel unawakened from the cold isolated world, feeling dejected
Soon we learn to accept failure and let our dreams glide apart, vanishing into thin air
We are uncontrollably blinded from our hearts true desires
And deafened from those heartening voices which still posses faith
Then we encounter our happiest days where we feel loved the most
We choose to loosen our feathers and let it drift away
Where we then feel inseparable from our devotions and once again be faithful
And when yesterday turns into today we will be lovers again
We will learn to wail and express happiness, sparing more time for our own selves
The birds will once again fly in a flock, flying higher than ever
The night sky will fall into a scintillating and beautiful day when we wake up