you scramble back, the stone and sand biting in bare flesh your chest heaves, rise up in down in rapid beats one, two. . . the crowd sings to each beat, a delight and fury their smiles glare and their eyes flash, hungry and raw one, two, three. . . their cruel song ends asContinue reading “five moments time”
Category Archives: myth maker
you were made to trick a fool, you know
dear jon, you were never real you were based off someone fictional and in the end you were completely fictional down to your long, soft hair your dark, near black, eyes your indescribable nose (adjectives left me in that time) your attached yet ridged ears (too many questions) you were unreal and every romantic thingContinue reading “you were made to trick a fool, you know”
loss, a chronicle
i watched as goodness died in my arms “i will save you. . .” his laughter was intermittent with dying heaves he knew what i did not i did not speak for days empty, my eyes blinked at a coffin tears could not fall sobs could not shake me i glimpsed the dark when iContinue reading “loss, a chronicle”
legends
smoke, fog, a haze a haze of hostility a haze of fear cold rain, warm air this place had to be cursed cursed, yet beautiful in a wicked way “We cannot talk our way out of this.” said the dragon he was met with no answer, only their footsteps on the earth heroes, the giant,Continue reading “legends”
cleric
she remembers her first memories the warm hearth of a fire with kind eyes glowing down at her in the fire light the eyes of her mother the low rumbling hum of a man a distance away the hum of her father it was love, her first memory the next memory was fire but itContinue reading “cleric”
the sun will shine on us again
you have lost everything your father, gone in a haze your mother, gone too early your brother, gone from his own mistakes your closest friend, gone because he gave too much there is on emptiness in your eyes there is nothing left for you to lose but do not lose your hope and faith forContinue reading “the sun will shine on us again”
“you deserve it.”
“i am always here, you know,” she whispers “and you want to be me.” she appears like a hallucination “but you think i am sick,” she laughs and i feel ink drip onto my skin, staining me, branding me, burning me “but really, you are sick if you want to be me, a monster.” theContinue reading ““you deserve it.””
different
i remember the look on their face as my eyes turned black i was special, they said oh, i was, but the special was because they feared feared me feared what i would become i was special because i was different than their blues, browns, and greens different, a cursed yet glorious thing
i, the monster
pain broke me misery consumed me and fury festered within me then, darkness became me
you are a knight of darkness, but you can be come a knight of light
darkness called you and you answered betrayed by all you turned to a place where you thought you would be accepted but in the end they only used you and abused you others made you like this but do not always blame others for what became of you you had a part in the monsterContinue reading “you are a knight of darkness, but you can be come a knight of light”
a poet's confessional 