Chapter 1 Nestled in a dimly lit corner of the bar, I found myself alone, seeking solace in the soft glow of warm, amber lights. The flickering illumination danced across the weathered wooden counter, creating intricate shadows that seemed to tell their own stories. The air was alive with the animated chatter and laughter of the other patrons, their voices blending together into a vibrant symphony that enveloped the space...
Why does it have to be me? You lie in bed asleep, While I sit in a dark corner,Petrified of my own thoughts. I can't sleep because you'll be there. Slowly I slip into madness. Pounding my head against the wall, Screaming at the shadows in my closet. Why can't anyone hear me?! Why will no one listen?! I just want to sleep. I just want to live my life without the fear of seeing you again. Then everything goes silent. I'm s...
When you can’t eat, can't sleep, can't breathe without them. When your chest tightens up and it feels as if a hand has reached up inside your chest, squeezing your heart between cold fingers. When your eyes sting because there’s no more tears left to cry. When all you want is better times but know that they’re gone forever, like a memory that will never fade, like a dream that became a nightmare. When you lie awake at...
CHAMELEON Oh Chameleon, basking on the rock, your skin the same hue as the surface you sit on in the sun that dapples light on you in your blissful heat bath. I too can change my colours blending into the background, when in an alien environment I do not have the attitude of most of my friends. “It’s not like this where I come from” I can't change accordingly I blend and change myself and become like those around me. I we...
There was nobody beside me as the first rays of light filtered through my window.Nobody to walk with me through the fields of early morning dew.Nobody to share my dream , my aspiration...I sit here aloneJust the tick tock of my grandfather's clock,I contemplate my fateand as the sun descends behind Autumn leaves,I look out across a crimson and Indigo skyI realize there's nobody to tell I want to leave this lonely placeTo...
