This night unlike the rest,
I sit on the stool in the living room,
watching the second hand
drag across the clock. The back wall
holds shapes of fluorescent
colours, while the wood tiles slowly rot
under the carpet. The fan
dries the clothes on the rack, next to the
tinted window. The weather
forecast hums a low static buzz as the radio
loses signal. Then at once,
the sounds of the pan sizzling in the kitchen,
the sharp noises of my
grandmother cutting the vegetables for dinner,
the clamour of the traffic
outside, lulls into silence. I find myself watching
the moon rise in the distance,
while the leaves dwindle under the breeze.
Sieun Park is a 14-year-old student currently studying at International School Manila. She is from Seoul, South Korea. She enjoys playing sports and listening to music.