Shortlisted
Unseen Perspective
Renaissance College, Sarika Mahbubani, Poetry: Group 4
Trapped
Beneath the weight of the sand
Struggling to breathe
Akin more of my kind
Leaning against each other
Shared misery
Masked
By the voices of dunes
Scratching against each other
Orchestrated synchrony
Finding solace in
Invisibility
Hidden
By the shadows of dust
Cast on land
By the sun, defant
To fnd my voice
Lost like leaves stamped white
By the arrival of winter
Lost
In clumps of brothers
Clusters of collarbones
Creases and calluses
Until I cannot tell
Where they end
And I begin
Unifed
Formed into formidable
Faceless giants
Into a desert deadly
My identity
Is but an abstract idea
Like the sight of sunlight
Fabricated
Hidden histories
