University Poem

University students screw
their feelings into little balls,
alternating between the Cafeteria and despair
And some,
not being able to relate to others
or come to terms with themselves,
Some retreat
and fail:
while others carry on
cloaked in anonymnity inside the Library
(those walls of stone)
and, placing their emotions on
closed reserve
climb once more to
the fourth floor.

Brian King.