im still alive.
ohmygodohmygod
i touch my face
and feel it.
i bite my tongue
and taste blood.
i take a deep breath
and smell dirt
and ashes
i hear the silence all around
almost deafening...
but im blind.
the sun and the moon are gone.
Dear Daddy,
you haven't been around for a while.
momma keeps saying, "he's gonna c-c-come back, baby.
"I know he will..."
so i trust her.
see, momma told me you loved me.
and momma loves you,
lots!
but i don't know you,
so i don't know if i can love you.
but when momma asks,
i say i do,
cause i know that's the right answer.
momma has a friend, daddy.
she see's him every tuesday from five to six.
he sits her down on a comfy couch
and asks her some questions about you
you, daddy!
and momma talks and talks and talks.
about how your hair is, "like gold on fire...
"and his eyes...
"oh, they look like the ocean got stuck in two
ouch ouch ouch!
are nosebleeds supposed to hurt?
i touch my nose carefully again, trying not to push the sore spot.
i hit it anyway.
more blood gushes out of my nose and my head throbs from the bruise on the side of my head.
what was i thinking, standing up for him?
ouch ouch ouch!
tears form in my eyes, but i brush them away angrily.
i hear him laughing with his friends
but it sounds really far away
my ears are making a hollow ringing sound
i think it's because of the small bump that is now forming above
my right ear.
he's holding my hand, trying to help me up.
the blood on my fingers makes me slip out of his grasp
and fall ba
My life is a circus.
The beautiful trapeze artist,
As she bends and folds,
Shows how easily
I can bend back
Into love.
The big lion
Opening his mouth wide
And roaring to the
Terrified
Yet laughing
Crowd
Shows my strength
But you see my weakness when
The ringmaster
Shuts the golden lions
Mouth
And shuts him away
In the darkness
Of his cage.
The one
Little
Single
Spotlight
On the brightly dressed
[orange, green, purple, blue!]
Ringmaster
Shows how
I am solitary
Alone in my own
Light
Then,
As the light widens
To show the rest of the staff
You see
I have friends
And a family
What I need.
Still
My life is
I've made a mistake.
well, we've all made mistakes.
can you please forgive me?
i feel terrible for what I've done.
it was dumb and I was dumb then too.
I've changed.
and I'm always changing.
i just want to fix things.
forgive me?
Almost...
almost.
almost.
the word keeps on running through my head, repeating the horror.
almost.
i almost had you.
but then i turned my back.
almost...
we were so close
to being together
but then something happened.
and i left.
the love we had
and the love we shared.
almost...
we were almost there
but then i turned around
and retraced my steps
and found a new love
who left me in the dirt
almost...
we almost had something
almost...
almost.
almost.
the word keeps running through my head.
the only word that could describe our relationship.
almost...
but not quite.
Don't blink.
Don't leave the moment.
Can't forget it now.
This is the last time we'll meet.
I want to remember it forever.
I know you want that, too.
So I hug you goodbye.
Kiss you goodnight.
Leave you forever.
Without any fights.
Tell you love me.
And then I'll tell you
That you are my life
and without you and I am screwed.
Marry me tonight
And I'll leave you by morning
I'll never see you again
I go without warning.
You'll see me again
I know that you will
But by then I'll be different
You won't know who I am.
Just remember this:
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS WORLD...
Why are they fighting?
I can't stand it when they do
Tears
roll down my cheeks
sobs
shake my body
my face
is glistening with tears
But I don;'t care
Alissa and Daddy
They're fighting
again
and I can't stand it
I push myself farther back
into the corner
and I feel the walls dig into
my skin
But I don't care
all that matters
is that they are fighting
someone
Get them to stop!
Why do they fight?
Do they know how much pain it causes me
to see them like this?
Clearly
It doesn't matter
to them
all they need is their little war.
My sobs shake me harder
my tears come down faster
my face
is scrunched up in pain
the wa
one.
we're seven days into this month, but I can't bring myself to turn over the calendar because I just don't want to be here.
two.
let's hope she's gone and her car will crash and lay broken in a ditch someplace. Let's hope she won't make it back through the door in the morning, because she's all screams and no thoughts, she's all eyes and too much fury, and I just can't cope with her scraps of 'it wasn't my fault' apologies any longer.
Take my holographic
expression and bend it into
any shape
you feel like, because
today
I want you to be happy.
The ocean will come and go and
the stinging nettles
will bite,
but I'll be
here and I'll keep
smiling
for you. Take hold
of my hand and
I know
I don't know all the answers,
but I'll try my best
to stop you from choking.
Small-Blade and the Mighty Oak by DarknessUnknown, literature
Literature
Small-Blade and the Mighty Oak
A blade of grass stares in awe
at a towering oak.
All around him his patch-mates wave their young green sprouts,
greeting the wind in joy;
the gentle breeze swaying them back and forth, and they
laughing like schoolchildren on a swing.
They mingle, knotted and woven,
displaying their patchwork face,
basking languorously
when the sun is high and the wind is still.
They droop,
drenched,
as the rains wash over them,
shivering, huddled
into their neighbors,
seeking comfort
and escape.
And every day this enterprising young sprout
watches the oak in envy.
And one day he works up his mighty courage and asks,
"Isn't it nice to be
Where its skirt flaps on the shore the sea looks fragile. Cake icing, boiled into moss-crystals changing every second.
Linger, wane, wisps and ruffled glass over the sand and here is some yellow-brown of the shallows, safe for crabs and toddlers.
(You can have it if you want. A present.)
Here is the young fresh green later out and with it the waves begin to skim. I think that depth is adolescence. Don't you see the excitement as they pull on their dresses and prance without a care?
Brisk against the sky, a painting stretched. Blue is deep. Danger-blue, darkened now, and were you to swim over there it'd -
(fear is bottomless. Sinks your
i offer my heart but you refuse to love
it because
"your heart is too ugly for me to love."
i can't wrap my head around that a heart can be
unattractive. but i am desperate for
your love. i say
"then you can make it beautiful."
you shake your head hard and long and
there is my answer. you claim
"but your heart is not worth it. you are
not worth it."
i can't say anything to that. absently, i nod,
hold my now breathless heart close to my chest
as i would to a infant.
the gap shaped only for a heart is empty.
i can't let anyone see my ugly heart now.
they might declare me unworthy just as
you did so easily.
i take a red ma
I told my mom she was teaching me piano lessons at her place. Instead, we played video games, solved Rubik's cubes, and practiced making out. I won seven to three, and I threw my cube at the wall, and she was eating strawberries; I tasted them on her tongue. We did nothing after that, for at least a little bit. We went down to her kitchen and messed with stuff. She put olive oil on top of water in the blender and I marveled at it. She tried to blend it, but it just wouldn't go. She said my face was priceless. She said I skipped science class all year because I was afraid to learn about the little things inside me. Bull's eye. What could a boo
Watching him change. by sirenseranade11, literature
Literature
Watching him change.
He had grown-up hands and
little boy eyes and a way of
saying things that made even
the heartbroken want to love
again; I don't think he could
lie to save his life, but he told
me about things that couldn't
possibly be true, like worlds
full of happiness and love at
first sight; He knew nothing
about real things like math
or how people worked, but he
was the only person who would
just lay in the grass with me
and not worry about the world
spinning away without us.
And sometimes, as he's falling
asleep, I can see the echoes of that
boy I loved; but when he opens
his eyes and opens his mouth,
he's who he's decided to b
catherine apart
she smiled in her sharp and enigmatic way
one finger was on her chin, and another was on her cheek
such long, white fingers
'do you know why no one sees you?'
she asked, in her hoarse, soft voice
such long, white fingers
such a long smile
'do you know why?'
then she leant back without waiting for an answer,
and the table rotated and she rotated and I rotated
all around and around in a circle
in the middle of the dark little room that might as well be a platform
in the very middle of the round table there was a wide, wide knife
'It's a strange thing.' she said, looking lazily at it
Don't blink.
Don't leave the moment.
Can't forget it now.
This is the last time we'll meet.
I want to remember it forever.
I know you want that, too.
So I hug you goodbye.
Kiss you goodnight.
Leave you forever.
Without any fights.
Tell you love me.
And then I'll tell you
That you are my life
and without you and I am screwed.
Marry me tonight
And I'll leave you by morning
I'll never see you again
I go without warning.
You'll see me again
I know that you will
But by then I'll be different
You won't know who I am.
Just remember this:
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS WORLD...