Silence fills the space that should contain fatherly advice
It is not fair the world took you from me when it did, I was not ready
Lost in this world ever since, lost without you to hold my hand
Even today, so many years later I find I need you, but you’re not here
Never got to show you me, ‘Hi dad, I’m your daughter,’ I should have said
Could you have still loved me? Would you? Or would I have been that son?
Extra time is what I needed, less of this silence, and more of you in my life
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Savannah K. Wilson
She/Her | Australian 🏳️⚧️ Author
Queer and all class with a touch of sass! (or maybe the reverse!)
short stories, poetry, life experience
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Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Ugh.. right in the feels. Gosh and that last line just delivers the final blow. What a poem.
This hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm so sorry if it's based on your personal experience 🥺 Sending you lots of love and hugs ❤️