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Student Independent News

NUI Galway Student Newspaper

The Student

March 2, 2021 By SIN Staff

By Aidan Moloney

 

Unfolding reluctantly from the warm chrysalis of oblivion,

We submissively wade through the ocean of lethargy.

Desperately holding our chins above the waterline

As deadlines grasp at our frantic limbs

To submerge us

 

Our already thundering minds are stabbed

With careless, normalised ridicules.

Though indirect and trivial,

The trembling walls of our mentality are cruelly chiselled at.

Toughened, but frighteningly brittle.

 

The blinded spend years constructing their persona,

An ego-fuelled puppet standing nervously

On a seemingly immovable pedestal,

Held in place by the scholastic hierarchy

 

Which only disintegrates into scattered fragments, lost on the fiery surface

Of the real world we are taught to fear but not tackle.

 

The end of the week consumes us,

Like the very deluge of work we are being relieved of.

Waiting on messages that will not arrive,

Craving the reassuring hum of laughter within the walls of a classroom.

We lie empty, dependent on the approaching Monday.

 

Soon the Sunday blues will not be partnered

By the routine cobalt lockers.

A day of celebration for most, the eventual relief

A night of existential realisation for some.

 

The protective armour of compulsory procedure has vanished.

Rescue from isolation is no longer guaranteed.

SIN Staff
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