Deion Lappleton, Grade 9
Enlightened
Luis Rodriguez
Darkness filled with incompetence,
Like living within a barbed wire fence.
When will it end?
Why am I here?
I am filled with fear.
I can’t see behind me, only forward,
Where shadows pass by all day and night.
A way out,
Dash before the muzzle of their hounds,
Crawling towards the light in the sky—
So high in the sky.
Blindness;
Crying with freedom,
Driven back by filial bonds.
A desire to save them,
Sneak back and tell them of the light;
But they fight.
Their might is too much.
And they beat me back into the night.