Pain crawls down my back,

Spiders shiver up my spine.

All I see is your eye through a crack.

If only your eyes and soul could love mine.

Alas they do not,

For you fell for the wrong girl.

Didn’t give me a thought

Treated like a pebble when I’m a pearl.

So lie there now, while you have time.

Digging a grave for the man you became,

Raw end of the stick? My love isn’t a crime.

Without you there’s n...

Whispers that come in the night often carry further than those in the day.

That was why our kids knew before I could send you away.

A secret once revealed can only be kept when someone dies.

It could be her, but it’s down to me versus your lies.

The trees carry your deceit through their leaves like rainwater.

I put my life and future in your hands and got crushed in slaughter.

I thought kids were ...

Romantic banter rushes through rows.

Sixth grade Boy Scouts put on a show,

Bubblegum pops in my ear as I go,

Tires pop too, gotta drive slow slow slow.

The mirror above on the bus wall

Tells me gossip is the fairest of all

Even though band kids are nice and tall,

Their tiny hopes will be dashed and take a fall

Cheerleaders kick a kid in the shin

Soon football players see and plunge in.

I’ll sw...

A deal with a man devil,

Hops to daddy as a frog.

Money won’t save you now,

tuck your tail between your legs like a dog.

A vow with a queen,

Who looks not even like a Princess,

But is pure enough to do better than you,

Still her kindness saved you in an instance.

Advice stirred with affection,

Yet the only loss a greedy frog thinks of

Is the powerful loss of money,

Still love is what friends ...

Opening a small trapdoor, crouched on my knees pulling a lock, I yearned to know what was inside. I’ve seen Coraline, but I don’t have a dysfunctional family so I’m not worried about being preyed on by a psychotic spider lady.

Tugging the lock mechanism until it popped off, the small wooden door creaked open. There wasn’t an ounce of light inside, and call me a cat, but curiosity got the best of...

I’m not happy with the life I live

Floating on a driftwood easy reality

Life without happiness to give

Drink away the pain a 9 to 5 decrees

Pump it into me, the feelings

That I rely on to succeed

Grab for the top, weighing down the links

That hold together my life, it’s an easy read

Can I stay fulfilled while my soul is killed?

I want to go but I can’t leave all my goals

Send them all a...

Shouts rang through the crowd, but they were quiet compared to the shot I fired, straight into my brother’s heart.

He had been drugged, it wasn’t his fault. The medical examiner determined that the reason he was trying to kill me that night was that someone had slipped something into his drink.

I wouldn’t be charged, it was self defense.

At the funeral, subtle glares followed my footsteps, a...

Magic is what happens when the sun rises

When the tide rolls in the magic doesn’t fall

The sun does, but the moon causes the tide

To grow big and wide, on opposite ends

Of the cosmos; where said magic begins

For the sun and the moon pull at their bond

Unbreakable as ever, magic prospered

For it made earth, of which cosmos was fond...

Ariana and I grew up next door. Inseparable. Went to the same school, the government let us get the same jobs, and we still live with our parents until a match can be found.

Except last night Ariana told me she isn’t waiting for a match. Here’s how it went.

“Daisy, I’m not waiting for some stupid machine to tell me who to marry,” Ari shouted in an outburst during our scheduled break.

“What d...

In the deep darkness of pollution

I’m lookin for a brighter solution

One not filled with cars and trains

Not technology and fast flying planes

I seek a greater tomorrow

And for that wisdom we must borrow

The ways of the past lives of human kind

Or society out of machine muck we can’t find

So destroy a city like we destroyed the land

Honest life will cause the flames to be fanned...