‘Past and Present’ by Shriyan Kar, age 15, Year 10

Art thou truthful in your serpent tongue

The one that writhes on a silly pun

For thy soul hurts each time

When thyself spurts a crime

 

Mystery endeavours to find

Thy instrument of reality

Of every note that sings

To thou truth of people.

 

How thine lives are intertwined

With the string of time.

The movement of thy lips

That foretells darkness and lies.

 

However, the clocks moving back

Thy complexion can spell it all

Truth lies not in thy device,

But in the creases of thy face

 

The measures of these words

Belong for thy past

But now, I move to the present.

I move to time of pure darkness, of pure deceit.

 

 

Devices hide one’s identity

All those smiles, real or fake

Saying I’m fine, it’s a real thin line.

Typing feelings, shadowing truth.

 

The face that shows good

Can be the dark that boils

On the cruelty of terror

The deceit oh how it multiplies.

 

Day after day

Year after year

The dark grows big

Till the question, doesn’t matter

 

Confusion rules ten-fold

Truth and lies tie into one

Dark and light merge

To create a futile grey

 

Words used for comfort

Are thorns in a bush

They are the serpents that lie on a screen.

The bleep of the buttons

 

Tell stories of questions

Of truth vs reality

Of Dark vs Light as we ask

Are you for real?