Fabrications 9: Looking down.

2 June 2014Yasmeen G, Allard '17

The following was the Grade 9 winner in the school-wide Fabrications Poetry context last week. Look Down or you’ll miss it! Look Down It’s all I ever do now Thanks to you. Looking down, Bottling my feelings Like you’ve taught me to. Looking down, The floor a mess of splats and swirls In the eyes of this broken girl, confused This girl you’ve only ever used. But I’m tired. Tired of feeling this every day Feeling my emotions, at their tips, slowly fray In your hands, caged, withering away. Looking down, to The same cold view Now seeing more than just my worn old shoes Which you of course hate, as if that’s news. Looking down, I think maybe it’s time to live a life I choose To stroll down new avenues Not one of them with a sign of you Free from your grasp and let to fly, No turning back, my head held high, Looking up Goodbye. Yasmeen G, Allard 1;7

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