words i never said

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Poetry is never fair,
like your mother taking your favourite toy
or having to go to bed at nine,
or being made go to school.

Romanticising your life, mustn't be fair -
like sitting as a ghost on the bus,
like missing those backwards sunrises
or losing the golden spark in your life.

Having mismatched chemicals in your brain; is unfair.
To have to fight against yourself like a rebel soldier
and to never have had a best friend.
To be a statistic, is utterly unfair.

To be reduced to words on a page,
or facetime screenshots,
or memories in a box, is unfair.
To never get the chance to see
that Austrian sunset,
or those Conamara waves again
would not be fair.

To never get to experience kissing pretty girls
or witnessing the queen die
or your favourite band in concert
or just enjoying food again, would be a tragedy.

But alas,
the fact that you think
that not a soul could care
if you had to sit alone in Phoenix Park
and say goodbye to the world
is the most unfair tragedy yet.