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NUI Galway Student Newspaper

Creative Corner: Beating The January Blues

February 12, 2020 By SIN Staff

By Alanna Phelan 

 

In he comes from his evening lesson, the December cold   

 

still shrouding him, shielding him from my pestering.  

 

His smile doesn’t reach his eyes, his words are flattened by fatigue,  

 

but he tries. 

 

  

 

One anxious arm locked around his leg, I wait for the verdict.  

 

A sharp word, a chore forgotten is all it will take   

 

for another night gone awry; for his mood to falter, flatline  

 

  

 

and tonight, all is as well as it can be  

 

“Grand job with the dinner, love”, the dogs are asleep.  

 

The fire flushes my face and tickles his feet. The radio chatters,  

 

  

 

but the frost lingers, a silvery cape around him still  

 

“Cold hands, warm heart”, he squeezes mine as he replies  

 

he’s had more famines than full bellies  

 

yet he survives. 

SIN Staff
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