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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Second year student Adham Smart, our resident poet and winner of prestigious poetry competitions, wrote the poem below for the Student Council's Valentines week newsletter. Students sold the newsletter around school and proceeds went to the Haiti appeal. We look forward to the next edition.
When I am close to you
When I am close to you, everything is sacred,
and the world blurs at its edges. When you are near,
I can see the sunlight as it punches through the clouds,
I can talk with the stones and know their names, and
I can smell kindness on the breath of every man.
When we are together I fly on clouds of woven letters,
I forget my name. You soothe
the horror and the pain, and your touch
is as subtle as wings of a moth, your hands
as gentle as a feather on the grass.
Your voice is the only music.
In the storms of fists and the rains of broken glass
I fear nothing, and great warmth envelopes me,
for though their lips are twisted and their knives are long,
your name is the only weapon that I need.
The flame of your love has engulfed
my heart, and left my palms scorched.
All the beauty, all the mystery
is yours. Every breath is an adoration, and when I bleed
I bleed your name, in the reddest language that I know.
I am a sponge and you are the water.
I am a match and you are the fire.
I am a seed and you are the gardener,
and the olive trees bow when you walk past.
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