High Cross College, Co. Galway

Love 

Love life is hard

Some days it’s good other days are bad

But no matter what never give up

Try to solve the problems

Always look out for each other

When life is tough always talk to your loved one

But no matter how hard it gets never go to sleep angry with each other ❤️

 

I.n.v.i.s.i.b.l.e

People hurt.

We hate, we lie, we cheat, we kill, we hurt

Everyday, every person feels,

People feel.

We feel pain, we feel love, we feel everything.

But feeling is invisible

The pain, the hurt, the love…

Invisible.

A person we pass on the street, a person you see everyday walking in the corridors, the person lying next to you each night

They feel.

They hurt.

No person can see what is going on inside of you

Replaying over and over in your head, tearing up your heart, killing your soul,

Torturing you.

And you can’t see inside them

All we see is the mask.

And its all the same really

Love, hate, pain…

It’s all the one

We all have our own stories,

Some haunt us, some are the reason we get up each morning,

Some are what make us who we are

Some are shared, some are hidden

Invisible

 

In Uniform

In uniform I strode to the stop for the bus,

stopped to tie my shoe, worth a whistle of course.

A drive by yell as I rounded the corner, surely my fault for wearing a skirt.

Heard a honk as I made to sit down under shelter, apologies for turning to put down my bag first.

Watched by the driver pulling into the stop, as I got on alone and hoped that I might get home.

 

Home

When I remember my home

All the feelings come

It’s like running from who you are

But never be who you want.

 

Be young is be a dreamer

But sometimes we forget

How this won’t can be easier

When all we need is a place you can get.

 

See you weep

They can love and then can play.

Expect a smile the next day.

As you cry in your bed,

Let your thoughts wreck your head,

They’ll be out with someone new

Who haunts everything you do

But do not let them see you weep

As this makes you small and weak.

 

Tate

Boys in Germany are weird.

there all kind of different tiers

The way they talk and act is inappropriate.

sometimes they just act like Andrew Tate.

 

Fabulous woman

She wears her crown of courage, power and fire.

She shines everywhere she goes.

She is confident and fearless.

Fabulous woman, she shines because she chose who she wants to become.

 

True Love

I think true love don’t exist now at days ,

yes maybe it’s a few of them but you just think they are perfect because they don’t really show their relationship how it really is.

A relationship is love your partner even if he have problems, sick, or is not in there best moments

But people now just want the picture and to say that they have a partner, but what’s the real use for you if you don’t really love him/her when they can not take a picture?

 

A beautiful place

As she puts her pencil on the page,

her thoughts spiral throughout her brain.

She glides the pencil drawing a rose,

not knowing where this picture will go.

She proceeds to imagine a wonderful land,

roses placed beside the sea and sand.

Slow and steady will win the race

The drawing turns into a beautiful place.

 

Not said

I don’t know what to write in here,

because there’s so much to say, i fear.

bad things happen all the time,

but no one cares as long as it’s not a crime.

I think people keep their story for themselves,

put them away and close the shelves.

which is bad, we all know that,

but some things are better if not said.

some people never see what they did wrong,

they just don’t care and go along.

 

Hate

I hate that I’m overlooked

That no one takes me seriously

because I’m young

and a girl.

 

I hate that my cousins

are rude and disrespectful at a young age

That their friends and them are worse

Than most men I’ve ever met

I hate that they aren’t even 10.

 

I hate that I hear of all the stories

I hate that I get a fright

That it makes me fear being out late at night.

 

Human Rights

Over the last year I have watched human rights be stripped from men, women and children like they are nothing. It makes me so angry to watch people who were once free and happy now hide from their own government and not be recognised on passports or any legal documents, I have watched women lose access to healthcare.

What can I do?

I speak up, I talk about it whenever I can but it makes no difference. When I go for runs I think of Aishling Murphy, when I hear America all I can think about is the terror faced by immigrants everyday, when I watch Alex Consani all I can think about is how she is not recognised in her own country.

It makes me so mad that people move on, forget and follow blindly. They don’t speak up. They all talk in small groups about it but when faced with a crowd its silence but,

What can I do?

 

Untitled 

From being a girl especially a teenage girl everything was against you from your gender, your own body and even your own emotions and feelings.

You can’t just have everything if your skin has too many spots or your body is an early bloomer. You are in the male eye just for being who you are. I was 12 in my town one day after being with my friends. I was sitting on a bench waiting for my mom to collect me. I wasn’t on my phone as I was aware of what was going on around me. When I was 12 I shouldn’t feel like I was in danger for sitting on a bench. A male approached me dressed fully in black with a bike stood opposite me and stared at me and then walked away nothing happened in that moment but I felt belittled and terrified in the moment my thoughts in my head changed from what time my mom was going to be here to if i was going to be hurt or worse my mind changed from a child to a grown woman.

I don’t think men understand how vulnerable and unsafe we feel around them and I don’t think our stories are heated enough and validated no matter how big or small they are or how judged they make us feel and how insecure we are in our own bodies at any age.

 

From the school to the shops,

you are watched,

how small and belittled we feel

makes men laugh and joke

to our feelings being nothing

and our experiences going unheard

all we want is to be seen as equal

and that’s where the world fails us each month day and year

 

Running like a girl

On a January night,

As if for your life,

I was only thirteen

And it still haunts my dreams

Running like a girl.

 

Ran past the river being followed

the water was flowing dark and shallow

A man or bear

people around didn’t care

Running like a girl.

 

Sprinted into the pub straight to the bathroom,

stayed there for hours awaiting my doom,

sat there shaking trembling in its fear,

everyone outside drinking spirits and beer,

Running like a girl.

 

Walking home acting fine,

Being scared to cry or whine,

Telling my father being told to not to tell,

because I’m only 13

running like a girl.

 

Don’t worry

Don’t overthink. Don’t worry. It will all work out eventually. All these small things you worry about always turn out not to be worth the hassle of worrying. So why make yourself unhappy and worry about insignificant things when you can live life not caring what other people think. Most of what we worry about is what other people think of you, your image, how they perceive you all while you are making yourself unhappy just to make other people happy. But why, why make yourself unhappy at the expense of making other people happy, who to be honest, probably couldn’t care less what kind of shoes you wear or how you wear your hair. The moral of the story for me personally is, don’t worry, you only live once, so why live it regretting all those decisions you should have made which would have made you happy.