Still
November, in another city. Still, fireworks rocketed
You into my mind. A zillion silver sparkles
Writing brilliant desire across the open dazzled sky.
You’d travelled like a star over the Mediterranean
And soon everyone round here was wishing on you.
All through the seasons I’ve seen your other lovers come and go.
I’d write each of your names across the sky
If I thought that you’d look up, and realise that I
Never saw before such a light.
And whilst other girls scatter their words round like rain,
I keep silent the truth, that I love you, I love you, I love you.
I’d seen you at first when rain hung like tears from trees. And months on -
no - years on from when I thought I stopped wanting you,
You’re still in my dreams, like a tear I can’t ever brush away.
More about Hannah
Born on New Year’s Eve 1981, Hannah Leach has loved writing since she was a child. She had her first bit of publishing success whilst still at school, when her story ‘The Dare’ was published in PEN magazine.
Hannah read Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham, and more recently qualified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist. She’s recently returned to writing after a long break. This is the first major poetry competition she has entered.