Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Girl in a room

Girl in a room
no one can hear
Girl in a room
no one can see
Girl in a room
alone in the dark
Girl in a room
no one can hear
no one can see
alone in the dark

Girl in a room
no one will come
Girl in a room
no one can see
Girl in a room
no one can hear
Girl in a room
Blood on the sheet
blood on the floor
blood on the walls

Girl in a room
no one will come
Blood on the sheet
blood on the floor
blood on the walls

Girl in a room
no one will hear
Blood on the sheet
blood on the floor
blood on the walls

Girl in a room
no one will see
Blood on the sheet
blood on the floor
blood on the walls

Girl in a room
until its too late
until its too late
until its too late


(for the past year or more I have been working with mental health groups in the UK, connected with 'Survivors Poetry'.many of them are self abusers, this poem is dedicated to them)

I think as a performance piece, this would work well,
inc. projections of patients, wards etc.
as the piece pogresses more and more voices could take part
until it ends with just a wall of sound & blurred images