Home
Drafts
Favourites
Plot Builder
Competitions
Prompts
Stories
Community
Read more of my work on Substack @ Soul Notes. Link in bio.
K. Alejandra
1 min read
skin against skin
bone against bone
soft pink flesh cries
red tears and red rivers
where promises are born...
Poetry
the sun shines on your flowers again
the kind you like
the kind you used to buy at the market
around the corner
I replaced the old brown stems with fresh pink petals
the kind you picked when you wanted someone
to love you back
the sun shines on your flowers
the ones on fresh dirt
the ones that lay on their side and tell you that world cries without you
the sun shines on the gray stone
the...
I follow your ghost around the corner
because I want to burn with you
To feel the lick of the flames on my bones
To let them char under your heated gaze
I would do anything
to fill myself with the tainted parts of you
To lose myself in you
To become a ghost while chasing you...
resentment bleeds from the holes in my skin
and I watch
it fill the shell of who I once was
no more
innocent wonder and curiosity
now
I bite the hand that feeds me
maybe
it will let me starve
I will come alive when empty
empty will swallow me...
are we mosaics
of everyone we’ve ever known?
or am I my own
to love and to hate
to blame myself for
all the mistakes I’ve ever made
is it just me?
what if
it’s heartbreak that made me
into the monster that I am
it made me soft
and naive
my laugh is from my father
and my tears from my mother
who I am is not who I am at all?...
2 min read
There’s dirt under his fingernails.
I watch in abject horror as he places my cup of water onto the table right in front of me, his hand gripped around the rim of my cup, where my lips are supposed to go.
I swallow the bile that rises in my throat.
“Thank you” I grit out with a fake smile. It’s a shame because he’s cute. Brown Bieber hair frames his smooth, pale features. His eyes are a muted ...
Humour
He was dangerous. His ravenous smile and rough hands made me tremble, and my skin craved his touch. His heart was made of cracked stone, but he still bled. He was my nightmare, my heartbreaking dream....
YA fiction
The waters know what it means to be battered
to and fro.
They don’t fear the sharp rocks
as they slam against them.
They crave the smoothness of the sands
as they wash up against their soft whispers.
The waters wade in solitude because they are creators of storms.
They are gentle at the heart of chaos.
The waters know they come from the tears of happy souls
whose smiles never quite...
Drama
two steps underneath the weeping willow tree
did I cross the line?
six steps into a broke heart
ten steps into your life of glass
no steps into your embrace
did I cross the line?...
If silence had a scent it would smell like damp soil after a storm.
It would smell like raindrops hitting the cement after a drought.
Silence is a disguise for loud minds....