St Joseph’s Patrician College (The Bish), Galway

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I come where the sun never shines the sons of the

father are bored at the ward where the poor man

sleeps and dies he lies to the Lord with his

empty prayers of trust and lust.


Real Power

You preach strength

Like its something you own

But real power

Doesn’t need to put others down.


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One man spreads hate

10 men do not relate

One man dares to speak

10 men fear of being a neek

10 silent men sit in their places

1 man distorts their faces.


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If empathy and emptiness share a crossroad

Why is it that empathy cannot fill that distinct hollowness.

to fill that void do you need compassion from other or yourself?

If it is a crossroad why does it loop?


Feelings

People try to hide their feelings

By pretending it doesn’t hurt them

Never healing

In the end they get condemned

Through never opening up

To how they are truly feeling.


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Thoughts of love and despair

Though its only the air

That hears me, I question,

Is it fair?

Thoughts of hope and hatred

Though it’s only tainted

By fear of you

And your stare.


Rights as a Flag

Rights are a tag and should flow in the wind 

as a flag, they are sowed together with cotton 

and therefore should not be forgotten. It is a way 

for us all to see of what is actually in-between. A 

thing that should not be abandoned by all but should 

be brought together for all. It flows every direction 

across the four corners of the Earth and should be 

respected and valued by all. Rights are a passage for duty to all.


Brave

It is important to be brave, respectful and 

unique as a young boy nowadays. There is a

false standard that we must achieve and it

turns us into people we aren’t.

 

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I hate when adults think we do no work and are 

lazy when they don’t realise we train our sport go 

to the gym and balance school work. It takes a toll 

on your mental feeling discouraged wondering if 

you want to keep going achieving a sporting goal, 

representing your country or playing at a certain level. 

Adults don’t see this as real work and have their own 

goals that they want you to achieve, whether it’s doing 

a certain subject or course getting a job you don’t like 

at all, having their own dreams for your future.


Truth about being a Man

It’s hard being a man without knowing the truth.

We constantly get consumed by our own paths 

to be an idol we worship, but it really hurts us deep.

We get slagged and shamed for being too smart, 

being too weak and not benching 100kg. A man is 

vulnerable, he isn’t toxic or tries to act tough, he is 

kind and understands his boundaries. We get told off 

by every little thing. People only respect us if we are a player.

True value isn’t looked at most men nowadays, just 

the fact they have 20 girls on their roster. We all share 

weaknesses, we all share tough moments. 

Shouldn’t that be enough to unite us all?


Four Foot Box, a Foot for Every Year

If I hear another f**king poem about 

someone dead that I can relate to I’ll 

never go to school again there’s no reason 

for school to have a connect to a personal 

problem in my life.


Rollercoaster

My life has been a rollercoaster throughout,

I have had ups and downs and turn arounds,

I have had goals like a business I want to make

And goals like getting a drivers license

But there is still downs within my life

Such as death of a loved one

And loss of friends

My poem of my life is mixed

And I know its bumpy

But I will live through it because I am me.


Who Speaks in Engines

Who hears a heartbeat

in the turn of a key.

Before dawn yawns open,

you are already awake,

palms ghosted with the memory of torque,

eyes reflecting chrome constellations.

Engines are your weather.

A low idle is a calm horizon.

A rev is summer lightning

rolling through your chest.

You know the language of miles—

how rubber writes its signature on asphalt,

how a clutch confesses

with the slightest tremble,


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Nice guys get slagged while asses are respected,

You have to be bigger or have a fit girl for people to

respect you, the guys that look big and scary are 

usually the ones that are soft and nice while the ones

that bring you down are the ones that are insecure.


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To wear a mask is no easy task pretending

to be fine while you really want to whine

taking the slags and putting them in bags.


Honesty

It’s not easy to be pure

When everyone hides behind a mask

Trying to stay secure

Although there is one cure

It’s the ability

To reveal your vulnerability

Be yourself

Don’t steal books off someone else’s shelve

Because true strength doesn’t lie in authority

It’s in the spirit of love

Fighting for a world

In which there is equality

No fake compliments

Just true honesty

Talking from the heart

Is what separates us apart.


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The fear of being rejected by people for who I am, 

its ridiculous, to care about others who judge me. 

The same people who de humanise girls, the ones 

who think they are cool for destroying their bodies. 

the truth is that I shouldn’t care less about their thoughts, 

but the thing is i do. I wish i couldn’t care but I still do. 

The few people that I am me with, they are the people I should care about.


Balance

From river to field I live my life,

Yet this simple story comes with strife.

No pain of abuse

Nor any close call,

Just crushes on girls

And school, starting in fall.

To many, my story is average to see,

But for me, it is all I could ask it to be.

A life free of trials is not one worth living,

But one of balance is one of true meaning.


Hard to Know

Its hard to know

to stay or go

to speak or to hide

to live or to die

its hard to know.

 

To feel or to cry

to fear or embrace

its hard to know.

No one does.


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Being a young man has its ups and down

Acting hard when inside I’m just a nice guy 

who’s gentle I make jokes with my friends 

but sometimes the jokes are to far and I laugh 

them off like they didn’t hurt me deep inside.


Galway

Born and raised out in the west

Out past the city where the roads were thin

 

Galway raised me gentle

We had green that stretched beyond the eye

Cows in fields and Neighbours waving from battered gates

 

Sunday dinners loud and long

Kitchen filled with story and love

 

I grew in a house where joy was known,

kindness was something quietly shown

Where hugs were easy and tempers rare

 

But even in these places

Shadows slip through

Too one of our own

Walked darker roads I’d never known.

 

Wrong crowds calling his name

Long absences stranger hours

 

Drugs that hollowed out his eyes

Promises made but never held

 

Watching two different worlds revealed

One of laughter warm and bright

One that vanished into night

 

It’s strange how beauty and chaos grow

Side by side how love can live in the same small town

Where someone you love keeps falling down

 

The hills the sea the family tree

Though I saw what ruin can do

It never fully swallowed through

 

Because kindness echoes louder still

Made me softer but made me stand

 

Born of beauty shaped by truth

Galway raised me roots run deep

 

And though one branch bent wild and far

It never changed the ground we are


Respect

I think that many women today still face disrespect

and judgment from men in everyday situations.

Some men continue to dismiss women’s opinions, 

control their choices, or demean them online and offline.

At the same time, more men are learning to treat women 

with respect, listen, and support equality.


Sixty-seven

Sixty-seven minutes before my alarm,

I wake up anyway.

 

The room is blue and quiet,

like it’s holding its breath

for something better than me.

 

I count sixty-seven cracks in the ceiling

that weren’t there last year—

or maybe I just didn’t notice.

 

My day begins in small, tired rituals:

brush teeth, tie shoes,

pretend I am not already Behind.

 

There are sixty-seven footsteps

from my bed to the front door.

I’ve counted. It makes the leaving

feel measurable.

 

At school, at work, online—

faces blur into a soft gray noise.

I nod at the right times.

I laugh half a second too late.

 

By 3:47 p.m.,

I’ve swallowed sixty-seven words

I almost said.

 

They sit heavy in my chest

like unopened letters.

 

Evening comes

with its dim yellow light

and the hum of everything

I didn’t finish.

 

I scroll.

I sigh.

I promise tomorrow

will be different.

 

But tomorrow

is just today

with its hair combed flat.

 

At night,

I line up my thoughts

like shoes by the door.

There are always too many.

 

Sixty-seven small worries

pace circles in the dark.

 

And when sleep finally finds me,

it feels less like rest

and more like

a quiet place to disappear

for a while.


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Many women today still face disrespect, inequality, 

and judgment from men in everyday situations.

Some men continue to dismiss women’s opinions, 

control their choices, or demean them online and offline.

At the same time, more men are learning to treat 

women with respect, listen, and support equality.


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I wake at 6:07

but it feels like 67 years old.

 

The ceiling stares back

like it’s counted 67 cracks

since I last felt anything real.

 

There are 67 things I should be doing.

Bills. Messages. Dreams.

67 versions of myself

that didn’t quit so early.

 

The mirror holds a stranger

with 67 silent accusations

etched beneath tired eyes.

 

I walk through days

like page 67 of a book

no one finished reading.

 

There were 67 chances

I almost took.

67 words

I never said.

 

67 doors

I almost opened

but left closed

because hope feels heavier

than regret.

 

My chest carries

a 67-pound weight

made of what-ifs.

 

I count 67 breaths

just to feel steady.

On the 68th

I lose track again.

 

Some nights I lie awake

until 6:07 a.m.,

wondering how life became

a loop—

67 steps forward,

67 steps back,

never step 68.

 

I had 67 dreams once.

Now I measure ambition

in teaspoons.

If sadness were a number

it would be 67—

not loud,

not dramatic,

just constant.

Just there.


Young Men

I think young men in this generation struggle 

To use their imagination. Relying on society’s 

View to control their variety. They don’t value 

The little things, but spittle and belittle them. 

And I know many can relate, but this is my chance to motivate.


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The love young women receive is more often 

Then not a twisted and manipulated love.

 

Never malicious by the recipient or the provider, 

But by the broken men, twisting their own insecurities 

Into advice for young boys too naive to decipher good from bad .

 

Ultimately leaving young women feeling used 

And young men lonely and misunderstood.


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Choosing What I Want To Do

It’s around the time of TY

When subject choices have come and we must make a choice.

And people tell us that it’s not that big a deal,

That we can always change.

But it plants a seed, a dangerous spiralling seed;

What will I do with my life.

 

I’m told it’s okay not to know yet, that I have the 

rest of my life to figure it out. But is it really?

I don’t have the slightest clue when lots of 

people have at least an inkling. It feels like I’m being 

forced to move forward with my eyes closed.

 

I think I just need more time.

More time to try things and go places.

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