The last thing I ever want to be compared to is a birthday candle. A candle used for a day, only on a special occasion. A candle that burns until it is nothing. It’s pretty to look at but not pretty enough to last. Sometimes I get the feeling that I am being used for mere days and then tossed away like candles on a cake, used only for a day until its purpose has faded away. That is the last thing ...

A spark but no flame.

Flames ignite.

Ignite into roaring light.

Light that blinds.

Blinds our hearts.

Hearts that crave a love.

Love that heals.

Heals a broken soul.

Soul that has been lost.

Lost in an infinite universe....

Your crown is made of the people’s bones and your hunger.

You take and you take from people unwilling to give.

You are a poison to the land and your greed will be your downfall.

The throne you sit upon is fashioned from the skin of your people.

Their skin.

Their bones.

Their blood.

Their lives.

All for your sake.

But the day will come when the throne you sit upon will be yanked from underneat...

I gave her flowers, red roses to be exact.

It was to show her I was falling but she took it as an act of kindness, not love.

The flowers wilted after days so I brought a whole bouquet and replaced the ones in her vase.

She called me “a great friend”.

No one wants to be a great friend.

None more than me.

I want to be hers.

I want to love her.

I want to spoil her.

I want to listen to her voice.

I ...

Dear whatever version of me finds this,

I don’t know who you are but I know that you are me. And if you are me then I am you. And if we are each other then you know what you must do. What we must do. Every version of our story started the same and ended the same. We were dealt a bad hand and with that hand we let it drag us down. We let it drown us in our own pathetic demise. But no mor...

A day of nature.

Celebrating every part of our natural world.

The greenest of trees to the grayest of clouds.

The cooling wind to the pouring rain.

The hottest south to the snowy north.

Every hour is a new change.

A change in wind

A change in temperature.

A change in season.

A change in time.

Every hour on the hour.

For 24 hours.

We experience all of natures beautiful ways in a span of 364 day...

Quiet.

Empty.

Alone.

Trapped.

So quiet the only sound is my heartbeat.

So empty the only soul is my own.

Feeling so alone with no one beside me.

So trapped inside a room made from my own woes.

I am trapped in a room.

No door.

No windows.

Only four empty walls.

Empty.

Empty but so full of me that it is suffocating.

It is filled with the deafening silence of my fear.

My guilt.

My loneliness.

My...

Lies

Lies….Lies….Lies

So many lies.

Inescapable,

Unwanted,

Destructive lies.

I lie when you text and ask if I’m okay

I lie when you call and tell me about your day and then ask about mine.

I lie to your face without ever meeting your eyes.

Those captivating eyes.

Those eyes that break down every lie.

Those eyes that make me want to cry and confess my crimes.

To look you in your eyes and tell y...

News

Just news

Nothing special

Words

Across

Down

4 letters

2 letters

One filled in spelling “me”

One barely halfway done

4 across

2 down

an ‘e’ filled in from the me

A ‘p’ at the end from a word already formed

A letter

An E

A letter

And a P

The hint seems simple enough

“Something everybody needs”

Reap?

Peep?

Beep?

No.

Those don’t make sense.

What does everybody need?

Love?

Heart?

Life?

Foo...

If wishes felt like rain, then certainly I am a storm.

I have wished for more things than I could count.

I…

Wish I could buy that.

Wish I was rich.

Wish I was prettier.

Wish I was happy.

Wish I was enough.

Wish I was comfortable with myself.

Wish I could love myself fully.

Wish I could find my own love.

Wish I could live.

Wish I was dead.

I wish…I wish…I wish….

Endless wishes that get...