
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.