Rachel O'Dwyer (Write Here, Write Now/ 2nd level finalist)

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30 Apr 18

Rachel O'Dwyer is in fifth year in Borrisokane Community College. She’s a complete bookworm and will read anything from Dan Brown to Leigh Bardugo. She has always adored writing. She plays the violin with a School group and recently learned the Games Of Thrones tune on it. She sometimes go kayaking in the summer. Her favourite subjects are Irish and French. She lives for chocolate.

And now for Rachel’s WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW entry ...

Social Media.

I am no worse than the jagged knife,
Idle on the table
Or blank paper, dormant beside a pen.
I am no better than my ancestors,
Paternal paper or
Maternal media of yesterday.

I am not a crooked journalist.
I equal a voice, though not my own.
Rough consonants and wide vowels,
Stretching my tongue,
A million languages.

I am a soldier,
Trekking onwards,
Navigating the route of commands.
I am a mess of verbs and nouns,
The occasional flavoursome adjective,
Trickling, through
My binary DNA.
I am a lens
Tethering between reality and filter.

My eye sees, it does not work overtime
And judge also. I am a platform,
As they say. A boundary between realms.
Like Hermes, I hurtle through the clouds
Transmitting messages from your world
To that of your neighbours.

I am simply a medium,
A voice to be possessed.
You are the ghost.

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