Hannah Jeoung
Age:
21
13-21
Third Place Award
Poem
2023
History of the Amnesiacs
By Hannah Jeoung
blew our candle out
but now we have forgotten
to dream of a wish
torn petals and limbs
cherry blossoms stain the snow
impaled by its thorns
stormy weathered tears
eyes laden with dew like drops
weeps mother nature
where when who how what
etched on history’s pages
they echo back “why?”
empty sockets stare
from shallow graves do spring bone
chillingly at us
Screaming silently
Shackled by a gravity
So old and so new
it feels like a dance;
jumping in
between
these walls
hoping to be seen
in the Lost and Found
people cast aside their crowns
iron-chainmail-ed hearts
signs on the street say:
today is collection day
we cash in our pain.
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