2006-2007 Writing Project is a co-operative effort between the Dufferin-Peel Separate School Board (Brampton East, Caledon, Dufferin and Malton family of schools) and brampton.com. The project's goal is to encourage students to write about issues that affect our community through various forms of writing (poetry, short stories, essays, etc.). Students' writings are published online at TheBramptonNews.com and brampton.com. Register your school to participate in the 2007-2008 Writing Project by calling 905-794-0841. Reason Be
By Amanda C.
St. Marguerite d'Youville Secondary School
Brampton
What hath fate bestown upon me?
Even mine eyes cannot tell
For they are oft deceived
These portals unto mine soul.
Can such a fate destroy a man?
Let me tell --
Like shadows cast when the sun sleeps
All remains a mystery
Of which only eyes can decipher.
It is of such account
That man duels with fate, with fortune, with conscience.
The deepest darkness
Lies within the shallows of the stomach
And upon revelation
Doth man enter the greatest duel.
To trust thine instinct
Over thy logic?
To trust thy conscience
Over thy soul?
Prithee, listen, for experience speaks.
Mate the two.
Breed from them a reason
Of which none know.
Learn this reason,
Breathe thy breath into't,
Lest it depart with the Sun.
Give order to't.
Allow the shadows of the soul
The mysterious plunder of the imagination
To envelop all'st one hath to offer.
Let it by thy clothes,
Wilst treating it as thy mother.
Drift into an eternal abyss
That is thine own reason.