Hope

• Shanaya Gunaratna, Grade 5, Burwood East Primary School -
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

Positivity is contagious as can be,
From your heart or from your smile.
However nevertheless, Positivity can come from
the richness, the ambitiousness, or from the selfishness let's agree
But for it to truly travel into the motive of an soul,
It must come from the intrinsicness of your heart,
From your true essence to your series of emotiveness.

Whether from small ripples or the simple thought of
Standing up for your friend,
Spreading motivational thoughts,
Or being there through the highs and lows, when nothing can be bought
When all of the stars fell upon the engulfing darkness, accepting defeat with yield
One star tiniest of them all,
Nicked by the riot of havoc
From the demons,
kept their shine.
Tough as a tonne of steel