The darkness The silence The breeze next to my ears I let go of my fears My eyes can see My eyes are a leaky sea Of salty tears Looking for a Moses, to part my sea No fish Just my fish Oh, how I can be selfish To get my wish The people I have ripped apart, my soul I've ripped apart Left with no one but myself in this damn apartment Stressed, working alone overtime in this department I cannot relate; I am not familiar Have...
I am fast approaching the age,— the biblical allocation of three score years and ten,(Although modern medicine means it should be re-evaluated),When my thoughts increasingly turn to the future,And what it might hold before the inevitability of death,— an end that may be postponed, but cannot be prevented.Will it perhaps be my fate to die of cancer like my father,Or will I linger for years in the half-light of dementia,My...
I wake on my left side, shivering from the cold. I fumble for the comforter but come up empty-handed. Annoyed, I roll onto my back thinking I'll have to wrestle it from Ben, my blanket-stealing husband who likes to wrap himself in a cocoon. Instead of feeling his warm body, I find only space, as my hand drops to a cool, hard surface covered in what feels like small wood shavings.Confusion blurs my memory. Gradually, the v...
Lee handed his eight-year-old daughter a shotgun loaded with a pumpkin-ball. She couldn't shoulder the heavy shotgun correctly, and the pumpkin-ball had less than the range of a football field. It was safe enough. His thinking was that he would send Eloise down one side of the hill while he quietly went down the other, hoping that she would scare all the deer his way. She would believe that she was a mighty deer hunter, w...
“I will gladly endure pain after pain after pain if it means being happy in the end. Unless of course, it kills me, in which case I have not earned that happiness.” “That’s the definition of insanity you know.”“We’ve already established that I’m insane.” This was taken from a recent conversation I had with my best friend, who is going through a breakup with her boyfriend of 3 months. I’m…in the same situation as her, hear...
When we finally come to the end of those lives we all have lived will the faithful be rewarded, and will others miss the final warning when it sounds? There are times when it feels as there is nothing remaining and the darkness can be felt beginning to fall with there being pockets where the air is thinning. Hearing all the noise and the dull roar of their voices and still some sit and cry about it and to rail against it...
Dark PenanceGeorge opened his eyes. He felt cold laying on a slab of cold stone. He glanced around, but it was too dark to make out anything except a solitary figure. He was tall, clean shaven and wore a long dark coat and a Fedora hat.The man had removed his hat and jacket before he spoke. “Do you know why you are here Mr. Richards?” he asked. George tried to sit up, but his body refused to move. He was exhausted. He had...
The wind howls And wraps around her heart It creeps and it prowls As it tears her apart She floats between reality and fantasy alike Her dreams are now just falling apart She clutches them tight Hoping the pain will soon depart He promised to protect her From things that crept in the night But He left her exposed And all alone in the dark She’s frightened and scared Left alone in this maze Her soul is left battered As it...
The road to your cabin is rutted, with sides that are just sheer enough that I have a recurring daydream about slipping off a hazy edge into the trees on a future icy night. I sometimes wonder whether the jagged branches would impale me or just stop the car from tumbling into the endless darkness and how long it would take for someone to find me if it happened. The thought of it, the manufactured danger, is enough that I...
We’re going up to the hospital to see Grandma Rae. I didn’t even know she was sick. As we step off the elevator, the smell of hospital engulfs me. I never like it but it is part of a visit. Hope she’s OK. A knock, ”Come in.” we enter and there she is. In bed, tubes everywhere, yellow with the jaundice of failing organs. Oh no! Grandma! You are never going to live, Death is already upon you! I can’t cry, maybe I mumble a f...
Another day rises, I'm afraid of waking up Without a plan or novelty as always. It's a bright morning But, for bright people. Though, for me... The sunrise seems like A smoke bomb. It only... Cuts my heart, Destroys my soul, Ruins my thought, And ends up in a pool of tears. I feel like a combat inside Between two unfamiliar souls. I keep wondering! Which soul is mine? Who I am? What I would like to do? But guess what? No...
When I am ashes upon the shelf Will you remember me When you feel your skin tingle Will you remember me When you sense a breath in your ear Will you remember me When you see my toothbrush by the sink Will you remember me When you see my pictures Will you remember me I saw your name written in a book And I remembered I inhaled the scent from your clothes And I remembered I pulled the photos off the wall And I remembered I...
We experience magic Everyday in our life Sunrises to the horizon Starting of a new day Moon shines with the Stars at night guiding us Winds blowing trees Swaying and dancing Thunder and lightening Strikes in the sky Rain falling from the sky Watering flowers and trees Flowers blooming and Fruits bearing trees Pregnant women giving Birth to healthy babies Doctors saving lives Everyday on death bed Clouds made you smile Bir...
"It's over? Isn't it?" I dropped my head and looked to the cold floor. "I can't believe how long it took me to believe it. I mean, I knew when it happened, but it didn't sink in until now." There was no response. "I won't hurt myself. I won't blame myself. I will carry on. I just wonder how many times I'll look back along the way." "As many times as you need to." The tightness in my chest intensified. My breathing was sha...
Is this a dream? Like you're on top of That rocky mountain Floating in the air Dancing aurora above. That feeling of Light headedness Wanting to laugh Wanting to cry All at the same time. Is this nightmare? That feeling of angry Laughing at yourself on How stupid you feel. That feeling of crying Shouting to the world How you hated yourself. That feeling of scaredTrusting people againDoubting your own self. Is this magic?...
