First Place Winner

Man and Himself

You were here long before I saw the blood red sky

I crawled behind your footsteps in aggravation

Knowing you as the older master after all

People praised your words for you were their prophet

You shone even if there was no hope in sight

Lead the public through the mine fields of destruction

But you left without a word to me or your people

And man kind forgot all that you have done and said

I defended you against the masses of non believers

Non believers because they erased you from existence

Falling head first into defeat most of the time

One man cannot fight the world, where are you?

Now I am standing in front of the endless sea

Doubting every single word you have ever uttered

Humming that irritable noise that once put me to sleep

Swallowed by the ocean to be forgotten just as you were

Alone, lost and engulfed by the death all have feared

Words rush into my soul as if I were alive yet again

And you tell me in a whisper so soft that it crushes the universe

“No, you are not a man, merely a helpless boy”

by:Maria Kezia Lourdes L. Pormento
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