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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

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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