Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition

The 7th graders participating in the 9th BCWC knew the answer!

Where does the ocean go?

This is what they always ask,

Does it from the world fall,

Or does it climb up in the sky?

Could anyone give me an explanation

Because I’m dying to know

Or should I go on expedition

To find, where does the ocean go.

My expedition wasn’t long,

I knew what to do.

The feeling was so strong,

It took me a day or two.

Was I was so near

I couldn’t for a second stop,

I felt no fear

Standing on the mountain’s top.

I shouted out loud,

Hoping it would hear

‘’where do you go’’

To its waves so pure, so clear

I didn’t got an answer straight away,

But as soon as a heard a voice,

It started talking with a gentle voice

‘’you want to know where do I go,

But be careful child,

This is a very dangerous thing to know-

Very crazy, very wild.

Whence I was a man

I lived a happy life,

And soon I became,

A happy man with a beautiful wife.

She was so beautiful, inside and out

That nothing bad for her

Came from anyone’s mouth.

But she got very ill,

That only sadness she could feel.

And suddenly she passed away,

With no warning she was taken.

I couldn’t live without my wife,

Without her, I was empty inside.

I couldn’t bear the thought

Living without my heart.

I was desperate I could not!

It was ripping me apart!

So that’s why I went

To the gates of heaven

Hoping they would send-send me back my love.

Suddenly an angel appeared in front of me

He looked so beautiful, so bright

Like golden pure light

He told me that he couldn’t bring her back

That she was in a better place

He saw how much pain I felt

So he put a hand on my face

He said that he could give me a potion

That could turn me into an ocean

The ocean could go anywhere

 even at the gates of heaven

talk with the dead

listen to their breath

I drank the potion

and you see… I became the ocean

and everyday I see my love

I see her beautiful smile,

 kiss her beautiful lips

hold her gentle hand

and come back to this land”

So this is where the ocean go

It doesn’t from the world fall

Once he was a man with a happy life

Now an ocean, loving his wife.

Enjoy reading more of this year winning pieces of writing:

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