I Shouldn’t be Here

Poem – Neryl McCallum
Mark – 5:35 -42

I’ve been lying here in the dark
confused
I shouldn’t be here
but I can’t find a way out.

The dark isn’t scary,
not really,
it has just gathered around me
like fog gathers round a mountain,
but I know I shouldn’t be here
yet I can’t find a way out.

Muffled sounds reach me,
what are they?
Words, they are words.
They’re a long way off
but I know they’re for me,
I make myself listen.

‘Little girl, wake up’.

Yes, that’s it! That’s the way out.
I open my eyes.

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