2013 MONTGOMERY COUNTY
YOUTH POETRY CONTEST

4-6 GRADE WINNER

Hana Kenworthy
Colonial Middle School

Laylah

With a swish, the flock of light-birds move
as the screeching calls stop.
Two stars suddenly burst into worlds of unseen
dull, ugly straw rocks back and forth,
becoming a new shade of molten gold,
until it is no longer simple food for livestock,
but beams of captured sunlight.
Bubbling, the liquid in a pot hurls
into small pits, then
silence. Only the wind ripples through.
The liquid is no longer. Two hands rise,
clutching nothing, nothing but themselves.
Drops fall, splattering. Two lines,
of rain and life together,
childishly pout of unfairness, of anger.
Above juts a cliff, darkness spouting.
5 cylinders spring into place, below and above,
battered from the effort.
She reaches up, grasping for warmth,
the warmth of one,
the one who made her… But she stiffens, cracks.
And she is no more.