Poet's Corner: The Closet

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It’s World Poetry Day! And we’re back with our fourth installment of Poet’s Corner, our brand new series featuring poetry written for you, by you! We’ll be sharing your poetry throughout the year, and it’s totally up to you what you write about. If you want to get involved, let us know over at @NCS or fill in our writer application form. 

Today, we’ve got a little poem by Lotte that’ll go a long way...

The Closet

Refracted, broken light

Seeps through the gaps

And our fingers lock like chains

Too armoured to be vulnerable

Of course, it was unnatural

The act of pretending

Creating ourselves as strangers

But still instinctive

I know now.

It was only temporary