Reasons

• Matilda Austin, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2009

The lightning striking right before your eyes
The sight of a thousand stars lighting the night skies
The thought of reality that robs you of your imaginative dreams
And the knowing...just the knowing that nothing is what it seems
Is what makes us walk about our lives
With no doubts in which to drown
But air used to live...to breath…to strive.