Organised by

Guernsey Literary Festival

Supported by

Guernsey Arts

Partner

Guernsey Ports

Monisha Kerai, London, UK

1st prize: Young People’s Poetry
Poems on the Move & Poems on the Buses Exhibitions

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What I’ll Keep

Don’t give me more.
Give me time.

Not the future —
the minute I’m in,
still breathing.

Let me notice
how quickly it passes,
how gently it leaves.

I will love it
because it ends.
I will hold it
by letting go.