A few years ago, in an interschool poem competition, there was a poem that touched hearts and won first place. The poem was titled "The girl who lived and the girl who did not". Considering the age of all the participants, it was certainly a heavy topic to carry forward.
However, despite the immature mind of the adolescent writer, the poem had been beautifully brought forward with the means of words that left a deep impact on the mind and body.
It was a rather crude poem, not one written by professionals nor one written by someone who had a deep passion for writing. However, that was what made it shine among all the other submissions. When the fancy words and carefully thought-out sentence structures were taken away, all that was left were emotions. Raw and unpolished emotions that had taken deep root into the writer's mind and soul. Like sand that had turned into a pearl, those emotions had been buried and converted into a shiny shell of themselves.
