Autumn Reminiscence

Brittle leaves rattle across the barren path.

Semester ends, I leave for boarding school.

My best friend gleams at my present, unbeknownst it’s been regifted.

Friends bid farewell, without a sight of her.

Buried in my future, I ignored the present.

Gazing out the cabin windows, realising her disappointment was our last shared moment.

I still wonder if she doth reminisce under the same sun.

My delayed apologies, one-way messages lost in the sands of time.

Anonymous. MBBS2

Sealed secret under the starry night

Sitting under the starry night,

she was looking at the stars as if she was one of them.

I opened my mouth and shut it again and again.

Eventually decided to seal the sentence deep down my heart.

Until now, it still pops up in dreams,

fantasising our life if I made a different choice.

Anonymous. MBBS2

To hold your hand

1 step 2 steps 3 steps 4

You held my hand through the door

Oh, how I’ve missed holding yours

Grown up things change

Love estranged

What was

Now not the same

5 steps 6 steps 7 steps 8

You walked me out the front gate

If I hold your hand tomorrow

Would it beokay?

Marvin Tong. MBBS2

Anxiety

5 a.m.

Exhausted, physically and mentally

Lemme fall asleep, I beg

Heart pounding, gasping for breath

100 unread messages; avoidance

Only hoping for his reply

Whirlwind of overthinking, wave of emotions

Floods of tears

Seemingly flushing the hormones away

Feeling better, I closed my eyes

‘Hold on tight, it’s gonna be a brand new day tomorrow’.

Anonymous. MBBS2

The Beginning of the End

Love has always been unfathomable to me.

The way it wraps the universe around its finger.

But as I steal a glance at you, everything seemed to make sense.

If hours feel like seconds when I’m with you, how would eternity feel?

Painfully short?

Only a fool would wish for immortality. What a shame it is that your presence has turned me into a

helpless fool.

Anonymous. MBBS2