Today we are delighted to share our outstanding third place entry to our creative writing competition Hopes and Dreams. We hope you love it as much as we do!
Our third place entry comes from Sadie Maskery. You can follow Sadie on Twitter @saccharinequeen
Hopes and Dreams
I remember
those nights
stifled under covers,
torch
spotlighting paper until
I was dizzy
from the heat,
childhood
sweat and stale air,
faint with
imagining.
Remember the
fall through pages
to a
dreamspace of talking animals,
where magic
was real and the universe
unfolded
snug corners for
vagabonds
and strays like me.
I confided
in my pillow
plans to
kindle my own words.
I would burn
bright with them,
conjure such
tales that
the world
would resonate
to their
rhythm. I would
have meaning
beyond life.
Children
years unborn would read
books under
blankets, enchanted
by my magic
as I was charmed by
tales from
ghosts long dead,
whispering
through time,
light passed
through generations,
campfire to
hearth to child's torch.
Here I am,
still reading
someone
else's dreams,
vicarious
emotions
consumed in
a sitting
with tea and
biscuits. But.
Sometimes I
write,
a small poem
to light the night,
watch its
rays spread then fade.
Smile at the
hopeful spell I made.
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