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Unseen, your footfalls float like early dew, A tipping fulcrum, captain dawn to shore, The keeper of one hundred blinking moons, Deposited like lanterns at each door.
You’re silent as a backdrop to a dream, As wheel spokes glint, unroll Hemera’s cloak, Your eyes alone behold her naked gleam, Your hand unlocks the caged-in glassy notes.
With hearth-sparks, beating palm, you lace the cold. The cornerstone of morning, time endured, A memory, a silence not untold, For countless sleeping ears are reassured.
At sunrise picture bottles smashed in flight, As day spills round your feet; a pool of light.
Sinead O’Reilly is a 15-year-old writer from Wexford. She has been twice commended in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award and twice runner-up in the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Award. In 2020, she was chosen for the Edna O’Brien Young Writers’s Bursary and the Laureate na nÓg mentoring scheme