Darkness

• Kate McKercher, Grade 9, Marlborough Girls College
• Poetry
• 2000

3rd in the 'Watch Out! 2000' competition

Destiny comes as it rolls over the land
A new life looms in the forever darkening atmosphere
Reaching out and grabbing the valley
Keeping prisoners as it sweeps through the forest
Night stars travel cautiously in the cloak of blackness
Enticing slumber to all on earth’s surface
Silence calms the country
Sweeping over the land with dawn on its trail.