Last month we invited you to be creative and take part in our competition for tickets for Ed Sheeran's concert in March, with either a poem or an image. This is one of the best poems we received
Science students
We were not literature students,
we were science students experimenting with
graphs, chemicals and beakers filled with secrets
breathed into the phone at dawn
the effects of no sleep
the effects of loneliness,
these were factors for which we had no control
there were papers
never to be written,
pushed off the bed onto the floor
heart rates increase
pupils dilate
pulsing sensations
that can be transcribed,
into chemical reactions
but cannot be understood until they are truly
felt
we were not literature students,
we knew the heart was a muscle
the size of our fists
but it seemed so much more