No One Can Escape

• Lauren Chhim, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2022

Black is the colour of lifeless souls.
All dark and lonely.
A cloak of black covers every single heart, who’s experiencing pain.
It is being stuck in an asylum, depression and death fills the empty minds of young ones.

Black is the smell of toxic gasoline, suffocating every single soul.
Blackness causes tears, to roar out of their graves,
Until they can’t bear it no more
The taste of death, is what they would want.

Love and support is the feeling that they would want to touch.
The feeling of happiness is just a wanted crime.
Black is the the hole.
That no one can escape.