POEM OF THE MONTH

ANOTHER DREAM-STATE LOVE

I’ve spent quite a long time trying to find the words to say this but none of them ever seem enough.

You see it’s easy to talk about butterflies. To say that

If you were the sun I’d bathe in you until I was completely, utterly, sunburnt.

I guess it’s harder to truly say what I feel Because no analogy no metaphor no string of words or letters could ever capture the feeling of when You

Look at

Me.

Because when you look at me

I fly and I fall at the same time.

I’m entirely dismantled.

Everyday I wake up and I’m still dreaming

You’re the story that’s in the back of my mind the film that’s always playing the one I can’t help but narrate because I have to know how it ends.

But you don’t end.

I’m blessed with the privilege of an eternal dream-state of you.

OUR WINNING POEM

Stephanie says: “My poem details what I felt when I was enthralled in my first experience of being in love. I wrote it almost to act as imaginary vows for a future I so deeply wanted with my partner at the time. Looking back on it, the words are bittersweet as I’m no longer in that relationship. However, I think there’s a sentimentality about it that is heartwarming. There’s also perhaps a desperation, which although it reflects the intensity of the emotion, also acts somewhat as foreshadowing for the demise of the relationship.”

For details on how to enter the MiNDFOOD Poetry Competition, go to page 97.