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Rohan Viswalingam<br />
Knox Grammar School<br />
SYDNEY NSW<br />
Kin<br />
Would I be that dark veil to cast an endless specter over her shining heart?<br />
Would I be the one to deny her fervent happiness, to deprive her of sweet<br />
desire?<br />
Would I enact her fate, the same of which I have suffered for so long?<br />
No, I would weave a coloured picture to beckon her smile<br />
I would break that glistening lock on thy door for her passage to the picking<br />
fields.<br />
But I would not do so without relinquishing my map and courage compass to<br />
her.<br />
For I have climbed those trees to pick the scarlet fruits,<br />
Have fallen so many times, have degraded my hands with evil splinters,<br />
slashes and scabs and have left that place with an empty basket and a heavy<br />
metal mind, yearning for atonement.<br />
Would I condemn her to that arduous journey of confusion and frustration?<br />
No.<br />
But the stars wheel overhead and the blades of grass grow high without a<br />
care for my need to slow that grand clock, set in marble high on mountain<br />
crag.<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
Arresting images and the intensity of the writing make this poem a pleasure to read.<br />
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