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3rd place poetry

Like it was too good to be true... by Eliana Hirsch

It’s like it was too good to be true

The sunrise would never turn to darkness

But then the sun set for this hopeless romantic

Turn the clocks back to the days of madness

 

When insanity slithers into the room

Sly as a snake, crouching like a tiger

Stare-down till my eyes hurt

 

Comes a point where despair is all I see

In a forest with hundreds of trees

So remote, no one can see me

 

Too good to be true

As my flesh gets devoured, the beasts are enamored

Easiest prey, don’t care to fight another day

 

Too good to be true

Something catches and standing over me

Is the savior from my dreams

Looks a lot like me

But this girl has metal teeth

 

Snaps and consumes all my predators and gloom

No traces remain and continue to plague

 

Gives me a hand, as I wipe off the dirt

The blood and the soot

The most magnificent sunrise

Springs to life

As we watch hand in hand, in all of our glory

 

It’s time to continue our story.

Eliana Hirsch, 22, is studying special education and criminology at Bar Ilan University in Israel. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, composing, and playing music; acting; and learning Torah.

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