Ten years on the force and this was the case no one ever wants to get. I stared at her photo and imagined the life she must have lived. So young and beautiful. Now lost as I stepped around the stream of blood flowing as slow as a turtle into a red pool beneath her wrist. I wondered at the fathers and brothers and husbands and boyfriends who once loved her but now hated her for what she did. I felt sorry for them, but as I...

Red Dot. Always a red dot. Fortunes crossed by the fate of a given moment. There was no escape for either of them. Both had a job to do, But only one would pull the trigger.

With the modern age, the Greek Gods returned to Mount Olympus. From time to time they still interfered with our daily lives. This is but one.   Atropos As the day starts. Mortals stumble awake. As their day starts. Fresh coffee dripping. Fast kiss and off they go. Atropos looks down, With mischief in her heart. Who shall I play with today? Shall it be Steve's thread, Or young sweet Joan?   With a wicked laugh, She flys do...

That sanctuary is still there.In the valley where the live oaks growScattered across the landscape of hope.Turn down the lane to where the wonderful one is waving,Beckoning as you come down the hill.Down the hill to your singular home once more.You've been here before.Been here and welcomed,Always welcome.Embraced in the open arms of acceptance,And never any regrets.Only the landscape of hope.Always the honor of being lov...

Fragments of my life are etched upon my face; I've managed perverse tragedy with false dignity and grace;  Time proceeds incessantly, seasoned anguish lurks inside; Exuding the facade of strength though I sincerely want to hide;  Floods of tears drench my cheeks, desolation annihilates my heart; Fate reckons with my sanity as my soul breaks apart.

I dance with the skeletons in my closetI locked all my emotions in a locket Some of my dreams, I buried in a casket Life it seems is a nightmare need an ice bucket Girl in her teens can’t understand her body Never known true friends, familiar with hashtags and emojis I send blank cheques to my memory bank, hoping to forget I cry on wet blankets, with my only companion, regret Writer's block, on a word diet Bad day to be a...

THE LAST SUPPER She staring at me tryna figure out my net worthFlirting with death in her night dressFinna gets loose, at my placeShe sucks the breath outta stressGonna go Christian Grey at my place50 shades of grey, on her faceI try to work out her broken esteem and broken virginityHer makeup goes with the stories she makes up, rotten dignityI should make up my mind, quit stalling Live to conquer tonight or regret it in...

How strange I muse, that fate should smile on me, And with a touch, such happiness bestow, For I have found quite unexpectedly, A dear companion from whose heart does flow Such tender love that banishes my fears, A gift so undeserved, and yet so kind That brings new joy to my declining years, And calms with gentle words my restless mind. In place of black despair, whose cold embrace Imprisoned me in chains of ceaseless pa...

Often times, the thought of inexistence crosses my mind. It’s excruciating, the things I have to go through—indeed life was the bitch that has to be dealt. There were even those mournful nights when I wished upon that dead star—shining brightly in the blanket of darkness, that I was void of any emotions. That I was as hard as a hard as a rock; colder than the north pole. Nevertheless, reality has its ways of slapping that...

Chapter 1: Creatures of Lore"One day you too will take your place as the elite of our keepers. One day, I will not be here, and you will have to take my place," Gyais smiled down at the small child that stood before him, hopping from one foot to the other uneasily. The child hid its eyes behind tiny hands that could barely hold a weapon. It had just been chosen from a handful of creatures to one day watch over Karmathor a...

I can’t help loving you. I just do.I’ve no entitlement To your affection, Yet I seek it regardless, And I’m blessed That you reciprocate. Our love is true.But our timing’s all wrong, Way off the mark. I failed to find you When I searched for love. Desperate, needy, I settled for a man Who wasn’t my soul mate, Who wasn’t ‘the one’.Meeting you now Seems cruel, A bitter-sweet find.Perhaps I should have backed away The moment...

You couldn't be farther from what I know, maybe it was in the way you move, stirring heat through the night's cold mist, it was so much more to me than a bright flashagainst the dark backdrop we lost our silhouettes in. You wanted to know the animal, what really drives me beneath this nervous gaze, and I wanted to know the sparksbeyond your blushes and sighs, beckoning both a soft touch and the wolf that whispers below. I...

My dad told me, when I was a boy, "There is nothing you can do to change or correct the past. You just have to make sure that you do not continue the same bad things in the future. You must move on." This was something I remembered to this day. My family and friends always wondered why I never became angry. I never became angry, because things said and done in anger really cut deep and taking them back cannot ever happen....

A couple meet at a bar by fate,They go on lots of amazing dates. They're two souls that just connect,Treating each other with lots of respect.Loving each other in so many ways,Seeing each other every single day.They're so attracted to each other,They make hot passionate love together.The passion they create is off the charts,They love each other with both their hearts.He proposes to her, wanting her in his life,Asking her...

This humorous riposte to "Colorado Calling" by Alan Jankowski (Dirty Martini) not only employs the same rhyme scheme, but in fact rhymes perfectly with the original while telling the opposite point of view. At last he's gone, hip hip hooray!Let him go mooch off the cannabis cadre.No doubt he'll return before too long—(Given the bum's rush, the urge will be strong.) For too many years I put up with that snake,His easygoing...