Poetry

Ashes of Silence

By Tihonnah Clayton, Grade 10

She is a locked book on a dusty shelf,

Her pages torn by hands that don't care for herself.

She is a locked book burned beyond repair,

Ashes scattered in a cold, empty air.

A lighthouse shattered on a jagged shore, its lights extinguished forevermore.

Her voice, a whisper, buried in the void,

Drowned by silence, broken and destroyed.

A puzzle piece lost in a bottomless pit,

Falling forever, never to fit.

She walks through halls of endless decay,

Where shadows bleed and hope slips away.

A shadow devoured by a ravenous night,

Consumed by darkness, void of light.

Beneath the surface, a hollow ache, 

A soul undone, beginning to break.