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my friends

all my friends feel useless.

all my friends feel like they want to be anyone other than themselves. i dont wish they were anyone else.

i wish i was someone else. 

me and my friends feel sick at the sight of our parents and our bedroom floors.

our eyes dont work like the people's before us and we stare too hard at the grey skies of glasgow.

my friends sit in bar bathrooms bearing their gums to the mirror and the midnight.

i knock on the doors of bar bathrooms looking for my friends because "he's just walked in and oh my god"

we sit in almost empty cinemas wishing our lives would start.

i sit in empty cinema's trying to find out what songs playing.

me and my friends are angry at alot of things but nothing that matters.

we don't like to pander.

we wish people would think about us more often.

i wish i saw my friends everyday.

my friends laugh at my jokes when theyre funny and tell me when theyre not.

they like to sit on the pavement to smoke. 

i dont like to stand. 

my friends like to dance under the influence and cry about it. 

some of my friends smile at strangers, 

i smile at strangers.

my friends keep going even when their souls feel like they might be dying.

my friends keep me going when i feel like i should. 

 

 

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Tom

Mon 9th Oct 2023 11:15

Enjoyed this Nadia. I remember some of those feelings. This line really resonated with the teenager I was:

"we sit in almost empty cinemas wishing our lives would start." 😀

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Hélène

Sat 7th Oct 2023 14:28

I really like your poetry Nadia. The words flow like a waterfall.

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