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Waiting all of our lifeFor the nights to comeFor the bus to arriveFor the ferry boat to dockFor the airplanes to flyAll of this, we waited patiently But what we thought is ourLast ride going homeMay take us to a new journeyMeeting new peopleSeeing new pla...
Here’s a poem I just wrote It doesn’t matter about what or who There’s nothing here for you to quote I just needed to get to 132. I’m number 12 on the SS list And looking up Mysteria27’s (148) dress Then Adagio (173) and Fuzzy (176) can’t be missed Frog...
Olivia woke with her head pounding, her vision blurred as a dark shape loomed over her, sickly-sweet floral perfume stifling her. Voices washing in and out like waves crashing on the shore. Fragments of memory exploded in her aching head. An impulse came...
Little Miss Know It All
A mother tries teaching her daughter about being an adultShe sat opposite her daughter, hands tightly clasped in her lap, “You don’t know everything,” she said, sitting forward so she was eye level with her daughter. “Being an adult, isn’t as easy as doing whatever the hell you want, goofing off, taking advanta...
Five Dollar Donation
A young man finds a connection to his father through a museum exhibitThe bus ride over to the museum was as painful as a tooth extraction without the laughing gas. Kids who were nearing adulthood acted like two year olds on Red Bull, bouncing in their seats, yelling at one another, popping gum, running down the aisle pla...
A Rainy Southern Night
The first meeting of a girl and guy from different social backgrounds, with hints of the past..America is where we hung, And fell in love when we were young. My youth passed fast: Windows 3.1 (1992)—Windows ’95—Windows ’98—Windows 2000 all the way to Windows 10 Pro, until my last semester of college. And in that springtime of 2016, on a wet night,...
After the Rain
For those who love the rainIt’s raining outside, I can see through the living room window. With my eyes closed, I imagined how it would feel on my skin so cool and refreshingmaking me feel clean again after it washed away all my worries and fears. As I’m watching the rain fall hard...
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Caden
What if everything you knew was a lie?Julianna December 18, 2012– Just after midnight I sat tucked into the small window seat of my bedroom and burrowed under the blanket, savoring the warmth it gave me. With the lights off, the flurries of snow could just be seen in the dark. The weather...
Dear Brother
This is for my brother who I have not seen in a long time. If you see this... I love and miss you.I am enraged. Why must our lives be so difficult? Why must those who are supposed to love us, Hurt us? The idea of you hurting in any way pains me. It fills me with a burning hatred I have long forgotten. To know that you are being beaten down, And treate...
You Are The Starlight
Starlight, starbrightYou are the starlight in my starless night. Moonglow is my wine of choice these days.But my eyes will slowly droop down and under the covers as the ersatz forgetfulness and sedation take me to my slumbrus abode.To my nightly home where I restlessly drows...
Ease Your Mind - Chapter One
All I need is your hand...Rain hit the window, and my eyes traced the lines of water traveling down the glass. Long streaks trailed behind each one, telling the story of where it had been. Every splatter would leave its own reminder behind, letting the person seated know it had ex...
My Walk
Nature at it's bestI love going for walks in my hometown. It’s a very small town, but its natural beautyis unbelievable. Words cannot do it justice. There is one particular nature trail thatI do enjoy taking whenever I get the chance. It starts at the Horsebrook Trailer Pa...
Kate stumbled down the neatly raked path, her glasses steamed up with the heat of raw emotion and half-blinded by tears. She trusted she would find her way to her favourite spot in the Walled Garden if she were blindfolded, or even in the pitch dark. That...