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The Light

The rain beat down
Harder and Harder
Louder and Louder

The darkness was every-
where.
surrounding me, within
me
I sat quiet and still in the
darkness
I never thought it would
end. J
The darkness seemed to go
on forever;
Until light. Slowly at first
small fragments of glowing
QO sun,
were caught in the last few
Crystal rain drops.
Then there was more and
2 more
Until finally she reached
her glowing arms out;
And touched everything
that ever was
I felt alive.
Light and life were sur-
rounding me.
Everything seemed to be
growing
And thriving as if it were
all new j
As if the world had just
been born
Again
Heather Burns

| ft wlAS @

with every passing moment’

Wednesday, Oct 25, 199

- Flints of Blue and Purple

on a Canvas of Brown and
Black

when she was born
she melted into a putrid
mass

her seven year old brother
lokked at her and vomited
her parents called her self-
ish then vomited

on the floor
on the people
on the tower

the doctor asked mother
whether she had taken

anything
she said nothing

she looked at the doctor
with purple eyes

father grabbed the mess
father threw it against the
wall

it dribbled down the wall
and formed a puddle

i plucked a daisy from a
painting on the wall

I planted it in the centre of

] the puddle —
" perhaps it would have

grown

| if they hadn’t moved ‘the

mess

-Glen Austen