Tag: sorry

• A Hinge That Creaks When You Touch It

  The end of the year doesn’t merely arrive.It accumulateslike dust in corners,like thoughts you meant to throw outbut kept because they hummed when you touched them. Time gets slippery here.Days stack crooked.Hours lean against each otherlike they’re tired of holding themselves upright. You start hearing thingslike the soft click of a calendar shedding its skin,the…

  Tavendale

  31st Dec 2025

  Poetry

  anxiety, hogmanay, mental-health, new year, original, poem, poems, Poetry, sorry, time, writing

• I Don’t Like That I Don’t Like You

  The sentence stumbles out like a shoe on the wrong foot.It tastes of surprise and apology at once, a double note I wasn’t ready to sing.I don’t like that I don’t like you. I catalogue the small grievances: the laugh that lands wrong, the way you tilt your cup, the joke you tell when someone…

  Tavendale

  28th Dec 2025

  Poetry

  anxiety, dislike, language, mental-health, original, poem, poems, Poetry, social interaction, sorry, writing

• A Sorry Habit

  I say sorry for the weather, sorry for my shoes, sorry for the way silence sits heavy between us.My mouth is a coin purse and the word jingles out whenever the room tilts a degree I don’t like.I apologise like a habit. I apologise for walking into a room with too much thought, for folding…

  Tavendale

  22nd Dec 2025

  Poetry

  anxiety, language, mental-health, original, poem, poems, Poetry, sorry, writing