Sorry Mate

by Elizabeth Goodall

I have to go now


please don’t say goodbye


wake up without me

invite the sun 

into my side of the bed


make yourself a coffee

froth the milk

like you did for me


and remember


when I made you laugh

I held air 

like a trophy

Elizabeth Goodall is a twenty-one years old poet from a small fishing town in Scotland. She has recently graduated from The University of Chester where she studied Creative Writing with Drama and Theatre Studies. The key themes of her poetry are grief, mental illness, love, and growing up.