samatna

Love reading everyone's stories, this is such a fun platform. Getting back into writing after a long break - favourite animals - geese, cats & horses

Writings

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samatna

Love reading everyone's stories, this is such a fun platform. Getting back into writing after a long break - favourite animals - geese, cats & horses

Writings

Followers

Following

The Little Trophy

samatna

1 min read

I sit at the back of the hall hiding behind my goth black fringe and pick at the hole in my tights.

“So stupid” I mutter to no one in particular. Jayden nods at me earnestly “Yeah such a waste of time”.

Endlessly the bouncy blonde Felicities, Andrews and Mary-Janes almost gleefully dance up to the raised platform where the teachers are waiting to hand out the special merit awards.

“What a bu...

Poetry

Dad!

samatna

1 min read

“Dad!” I called looking out across the fields but he is out of sight and on this light summer evening the night is beginning to close in and the fear creeps into the pit of my stomach.

I hadn’t meant to fall asleep but it had been such a long day and not a good one, sometimes he remembers me and sometimes he doesn’t. I pull on my shoes and grab a torch just in case the darkness folds over us bef...

The Kindest Boy In Class

samatna

1 min read

It was then that we all looked at Jacob, surely it had to be him.

We were all together when it had happened, only one of us had the opportunity.

But Jacob? The kindest boy in class, the one who went out of his way to help people, the one with the happy smile.

He looked at us one by one and he saw the accusation in our eyes. Jacob looked the way he always did, helpful and a bit lost always e...

Time To Go Home

samatna

1 min read

“If only this world had shown me a little more mercy I wouldn’t be stuck here with you” she says and cuffs me gently on the side of my head. She says it with a smile as if it is a joke and her friends look at each other and I can see the unspoken question in their eyes - ‘is this for real or a bad joke?’ But they say nothing and Mum laughs hugging me close to her, I know the drill and I smile ...

Winner And Losers

samatna

1 min read

Going going gone

I wonder who won

When they auctioned the sun

And we inherited pain

They called us to bid

Let’s be fair we nearly did

But in the dark we stayed hid

And now we are stuck in the rain

The smiling winners sail past

The rest of us are stuck fast

As ever doomed to be last

And we seem to be losing again...

Poetry

sanctuary

samatna

1 min read

It was on the shoreline, huge and dark until one of the braver ones went to investigate, flicking on his torch and setting off across the sand.

He disappeared into the monstrous shape as if he were swallowed by a whale. None of us talked we were afraid and on the run, only ever finding enemies and never friends.

We waited anxiously, could this be a shelter where we could rest awhile.

A figur...

You, Me, Him

samatna

1 min read

You and Me and Him

I did not choose this pain

I’m just clinging by my fingernails

Hoping that for once I can win...

Poetry

Directions

samatna

1 min read

Life is like a sharp stick you can point it in any direction and follow it’s line.

As I pass through the school gates for the last time I think about all the different paths that lie ahead and smile to myself because the choice is mine, the sun is shining and it seems as if the world is waiting for me.

I kick some pebbles on the pathway and trundle down to the train station, head home on the 4...

Lumbering

samatna

1 min read

Lumbering noisily through the undergrowth in their khaki, Shh’ one of the clumsy oafs hisses to the other one.

I watch unblinking from the barn roof as they stumble past.

‘Is it this where you saw him?’ One of them whispers. Poor deluded fools they think I can’t see them or hear them - seriously! I can detect a mouse in the grass do they for one second believe that I don’t know they are here. ...

The Burden Of Memory

samatna

1 min read

Why?

Why can’t I forget?

The days long gone

The words I regret...

Poetry