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Creature of Shadow
from INCITE 2023
by CIS Ontario
Rain patters all around me
Sending tiny fireworks of water up into the air; Clouds loom gray overhead
Slick is my lank black hair.
Ominously looms the future.
Thunder rumbles in the distance
Foreboding an apocalypse to come But I stand in joyous resistance.
People pass me by, Heads in hoods, hands in pockets. They pass the torrent miserably Yet I make no attempt to hide from it.
Now lightning strikes, car horns blare, People bound for closing doors. The flood of life around me
Subsides into a trickle once more.
For I have seen thousands of disasters -I feast on them. Long have I waited for this miracle. My feathers fluff out, I am ready to feast on the darkness After all these years.
Glowing shafts cross the night sky As I drink in the destruction
For I am the raven.
Yichen (Shera) Xie | Appleby College | Grade 7
