It’s just a word.A word that means nothing.Nothing to me, anyway.Anyway, what’s the point?The point of saying sorry?
“Sorry, it won’t happen again.” A lie.
A lie that can be said over and overAnd over again. But why?Why do people think it’s okay?Okay, I get it.It isn’t always a bad thing.
A bad thing is like pollution.Pollution is always a bad thing.A bad thing is like global warming.Global warming is always a bad thing.A bad thing is like my trust.
My trust gets me into situations I don’t like.
Like those times people attempted an apology.An apology usually means you won’t do it a second time.A second time happened. Then a third.A third led to a fourth.
A fourth led to more.
More led to my trust being broken.Broken as if it didn’t matter at all.All I want is for “sorry” to mean something again.Again, like it did when I didn’t know what paranoia was.Paranoia was nothing then. But now?
Now it takes control.
Control is more than it looks.It looks simple but it’s a lot.A lot like sorry.Sorry. It’s just a word.A word that means nothing.
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Bushra Shahriar
A 22-year-old student studying at Keele University - writer and poet.
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