Poetry competition 2009–10 – Guide Dog by Veronica Freeborn

Winner (11–15 years category)

Her world was black.
Her life: a book of endless possibilities,
With page after page of
Unreadable words.

How could she venture out?
When she felt alone.
When she could only trust,
The voice inside her head,
As every other noise
Had no face.

Today,
She is not alone.
And she went to the park,
Trusting her new eyes,
Around the pond
To a bench,
Where her new found hero,
Licked her face.

And now
She is smiling.
And now
She has a friend –
A friend she can trust.

And now
She has
Stories
Filled with her friend;
Her hero.