High School:  First Place

 

Bittersweet Madness

 

From the cold world of the flesh and the skin

To the red blood of the sadness and woe

Oh madness, take me in your arms again

Not letting truth of my emotion show

From nails of the cross to the crown of thorns

Of ying and of yang, of laugh and of scream

The yelling of voices, voices of scorn

I hear them inside perpetual dream

I wish to wake up, for nightmare to end

To vanish the gray of my tainted soul

To finally strive and happiness mend

Bittersweet madness engulfing me whole

Irrational reverie found in bliss

Does the untainted soul truly exist?

 

By:  Steven Carr