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Alice Swatridge
Poems
Dec 2019
In The Absence of Light
Let the hair fall over your face
Don’t speak, they won’t reply
It feels like you’ve been replaced
Try and let the days pass by
If you were to fall they wouldn’t see
You miss how they used to care
It’s not the way it used to be
A simple smile by now is rare
And in your head there’s only black
So tired of make believe
If you smile, they won’t smile back
Why don’t you just leave?
You’ll never be the way they are
Their level is just too hard
Just try and reach that social bar
And keep your feelings jarred
on feeling alone in crowds and out of place among friends. written when i was 15.
#loneliness
#rhymescheme
#outcast
#outofplace
#socialanxiety
Written by
Alice Swatridge
19/F/North Wales
(19/F/North Wales)
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