Litmus Year: 2023
‘Seeds’ by Laura Pugh, Age 16, Year 11, Mercia School
Can you see the bars over there? The breathless ghost of a wall, no. But you can feel them. The unspoken segregation between what is ours and theirs. The rigid desire to possess cutting away at our land, domination and greed and the people who fall victim in the places in between. Not just the …
‘Over the Border We Shall Go’ by Seren Wilcock, Year 9
A border may confine us. Confine us from the world around. No matter how hard we try there is no getting out. While you may think of the borders that separate countries; I’m thinking of the borders that keep us out. Locked in a world they believe is “safe” as there is something out there. …