The Wordsmiths Book 2021

The burdens of the past forgotten outright A reminder to the weary that all will be alright

Twilight – The moment in between Of day and night obscene The battle of the sky Within the heavens on so high The final gasping breath Of Apollo’s dance of death For a fate undetermined

When nothing’s left for certain The veil of night encroaches As the final hour approach I walk through the shadowed valleys Dreading the grand finale With my sputtering, flickering flame I wonder will the world ever be the same? Ambition- I look above me, to see a thousand, twinkling starry skies All around me, a thousand hopes there lie As I trample them, beneath the weight, of my burdened soul My eyes alight and set upon my ever distant goal As friends may fall, forevermore, I still must not give in For all that is lost, my hands are stained with sin As I reach toward, the light of dawn I must alone, go on Flight –

A thousand skies Of nights and day

Of empty worlds spanning The voids of endless space The starry heavens of a milky way An eternal black above this globe of light

Lunar ascendant, an eerie glow The light of sun, dim and faint The thin fine line between The start and terminus

Angus Cheung

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