Highly Commended: Sohaila Elbeialy

Category A: Primary School (9 to 11 years) Highly Commended (2024), Golden Tales Short Story Competition
Author: Sohaila Elbeialy

I pull on to you, with tears of time

Long far away, bold as lime

I feel warmth, touching my heart Spreading through, like a dart

The touch is pure, the touch is fine,

And this touch is mine

Sunbeams light the rope

Light up my heart, light up my hope

Look into my eyes, close the gap,

My tears are dripping like sap

I feel the cotton of your dress,

I feel inside you the natural mess

All my memories are inside a tree

Most of them are you and me

I see a future where you and I

Come together and gaze at the sky

Close our eyes, together and ever

Rest well, like a feather

Words are pouring from my heart,

Words coming from the start

My heart for you

My gifts for two

I've missed you so much, my dear grandmother,

I've missed you even more than my brother

I wish to see you once more,

And after that I shall see you again.