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Regina Greenan

Regina is a 27-year-old Creative English master’s student at the University of Sussex, originally from Galway, Ireland. She loves poetry and especially those that are centred on feminist issues and those that explore trauma. Most of her work is confessional and experimental, with an abstract feeling to it.

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I met a lovely girl at the institute 

With brown hair and longing eyes 

So beautiful, what is she doing here? 

So beautiful, she doesn’t have to try 

Loved, and unloved, then loved again 

Until she doesn’t know what’s real 

Fleeting, then permanent, then trapped with the man 

Until she doesn’t know how to feel 

I’m scared you’ll leave, and then you do 

You’re scared that I’ll stop caring 

I missed you til you left, then I felt alive 

You missed me only when it was daring 

Dare me if you will, and care to feel 

The damage that you caused 

Fix me again 

And make amends 

For that temporary applause 

Tell me that I’m yours 

Don’t tell anybody else Ill be your dirty little secret 

Pretend that you don’t know me 

Trust me, I never cared 

Give me your shame, and I will keep it