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Dear Mary

22 December 2016
Jemma O, Mackenzie ‘19; Photo by Jim Ganley
Each term our students participates in a creative writing contest, named in honour of long-time Brentwood English teacher, yearbook editor and houseparent, Ms. Beth Meluish. Below is the sonnet composed by the Grade 10 winner, Jemma O, Mackenzie ‘19. Dear Mary, I write to thee with love and prayers of hope; Wishing I stood with you, your hand in mine; Heartache besieges men who barely cope; Remembering the loved and lost in time. Men march under the fire, onward we go; The birds take flight; escape this greedy ground; I watch my brothers’ fall, skin pale as snow; No hour to waste; reload, another round. Yet once I thought fighting was for the good; Purpose is obsolete, shot with my gun; His eyes wide open, standing where I stood; The seconds slow, I’m not the only one. And weep for souls we lost since this began; For now I breathe, alive a woeful man.

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