Forgotten Daydream

• Amira Mahmoud, Grade 11, Suzanne Cory High School
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Summertime Fun ONLINE' competition

Grimy shackles tug at
scrawny, raw-boned ankles
scraping away trickles of yearning
clawing away
at a forgotten daydream
buried beneath rotting
bodies laying unhinged and corroded
stitched and hurled

Blood-curdling howls are rampant
the murky spit of desperation
lay on my back
written amongst deeply penetrated crinkles

flaxen-stained teeth unfold a heinous grin
a clunk as dampness flows, like riverbeds
the tinge of our Eritrean blood
gleaming, tangible, leaking
into a forgotten daydream.