Poem: Loneliness Goes Underground

A music score composed by Harry Pollard,17 to accompany a poem by Ursula Mutingwa, 19 about loneliness on the underground accompanied by

There’s you you you and you
I look up you look down
The lengths we go to just to avoid eye contact…
“please mind mind the gap.”
There’s you, you, him and her
She’s reading a newspaper
He’s on his phone
I wonder if he’s going home.

There’s you, me, him and more.
Someone’s bag just got stuck in the door
He struggles in silence, no one looks up
They’re all too busy trying to hook up
Not to those beside them who stand
But to that precious device in their very hand.

There’s you you her and me.
Netflix now has new downloads, I see.
We travel through the light and the dark
No sharing or caring as more people embark

We alight from the train and remain strangers
You you you me and he…

With funding from John Lyon’s Charity, Exposure worked with students from North London over three months to develop creative responses to youth loneliness.

A study shows that social isolation can cause ‘a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day.’

National Statistics show that almost 10% of young people aged 16 to 24 were always or often lonely – the highest proportion of any age group in the country.

According to a recent report by Acevo, nearly half of young people in the UK often feel lonely. This compares to only a quarter of over 65s.

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