1st Place – “This One Is For Willow” by Patricia Avila
April 11, 2023
1st Place
“This One is For Willow” by Patricia Avila
It pains me to say
We were never destined to be
With your effortless beauty and thirst for life
You could never be mine
For I was born in a world of chaos
A need for destruction and plight
Your delicate hands and animal eyes
Could never fall perfectly into mine I
pollute your heart and kill your kind
An endless cycle
A dance of death
I sap your strength and leave you weak
Colorless in defeat
Your only hope is to await death
For in the end
I am not good for you
My kind is not good for you
A solemn truth gone unspoken
I choke and weep for I cannot save
My Dearest,
Flora and Fauna
–The Dance Between Man and Nature is a Cruel One
