Shortlisted
You Can’t Stop Me
Peak School, Alyysia Yuan-Pritchard, Poetry: Group 2
Run, Run, Run, as fast as you can,
You can’t stop me I am the Gobi man.
Swirling and gusting,
I have such amazing powers,
Morphing and transforming everything in my way,
I’m invincible and getting stronger by the day,
Fifth in the world but that is too lame,
I wanna be first and Gobi is my name.
I spread my reach like a pandemic disease,
Killing everything in my way and bringing you to your knees,
You’re just a speck on my kingdom,
Leaving you displaced with infertile land,
You waste your time trying to stop me growing,
Holding back sand with the palms of your hands,
Your hands are no match for what I’ve become,
I am the only one.
Everybody blames me,
How sad it makes me feel,
It is not my fault I am doing you harm,
The wind is my friend and the sand is my soul,
Closing my eyes loses me in depths of despair,
It makes me sad to know that I’m uncontrollable,
It makes me depressed to know you don’t care.
A new tale about the Gobi Desert?
That’s me, but actually I’m old,
50 million years old so I’m nothing new,
Climate change is older than dinosaurs,
Too many humans are deaf to the cause,
Stop, stop, stop, can’t you see what you’ve done,
You can stop me it only started as some harmless fun.
