“Oblitus” by sophomore Samantha Burggraf won 2nd Place for Poetry in the Writer’s Conference annual contest and will be published in the online magazine The Writer’s Slate later this spring. Congratulations, Sam!
Oblitus
It is the same sorrow the Sun and Moon feel
When they miss each other,
As one rises and one falls.
The way the Oak tree longs for the leaves she loses
When autumn comes around.
To you all of my thoughts
Are just words
Disappearing into the world I capitulate them to.
And to me my words
Are everything I have,
Since the tide changed.