The End

• Emmanuel D'Ugo, Grade 8, McCarthy Catholic College
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

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The time slowing receding back
Dawning over me like the night sky looming over a city
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The time slowly running out like a presence of something for stronger then death
Coming to lay a quick and swift end
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Knowing my time is numbered
Gives it all meaning and takes it all away simultaneously.
An ongoing divergent of meaninglessness
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Knowing this life is coming to a decisive conclusion
I embrace the feeling it feels as if my blood is being transformed into ice
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Meer seconds away I shut my eyes as a farmer shuts his barn at the end of a day
However this “End” is forever, eternal,infinite
A final end, the end of all ends.
There is no new beginnings, fresh starts after this
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The End….