Penmanship

• Jessica Burns, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2008

Scurry shadows
From the light
Blow the dust from
Worn pages
Weighed down with
Time and knowledge
Their spines
Weak
Tears and cracks
Wrinkles from another age
Words fall freely
From a pen
Long dead...
There there pen
You may be gone
But Your books are still here