A young girl hopes to find her prince one day Someone to hold her, to save her Oh to be a child again, to dream and to play

Dreams are for sleeping some might say But there must be something deeper Something more than living day by day

In that silent, empty bed you lay Oh the curse of a faithless sleeper The dreams you weave continue to fray

On painful nights you begin to pray Begging God to bring the reaper Pleading with the sky to bring you a sunray

The hopeful reveries of a babe Before her heart grows cheaper Sweet dreams before the day

When the sun come up and she may Hope her dreams would go away Dreams of which she is not the keeper What a cruel game innocence plays

A push and a push and a push Rubber soles kiss rough concrete And I’m gliding The wind gripping and pulling my hair My skateboard moving faster and faster In that moment It feels like all the laws of physics Find perfect harmony within me Balance, acceleration, inertia, force Like an airplane going faster and faster Before disappearing into the sky Leaving everything else behind It all feels so small when you’re flying Like nothing on earth could hurt again Just one Small small small problem A rock Under the ever-quickening wheels Of my suddenly insignificant wooden plank And I’m flat on my face Blood wells up on my knees Tears well up in my eyes And it feels for a moment like My blood and my tears knew I would fall And were waiting to baptize me As a follower of failure Lungs both full off too much air And not enough Arms splayed out Hugging the earth for comfort The board Which once brought so much joy Fills me with fear So much I can hardly touch it I get up and begin walking away Before turning back And with bloody shaking hands Grab the board again Because I love too much The way it feels when I’m flying

Look up Into the air At the stars So far, so so so far Reach up Can you feel it? The pull The energy The yearning for something more Feel up Into the night The blackness The dreamers vacuum Do you feel your heart stretching Into space Into nothing Into the stars Hope Hope because that’s all you can do Hope between the space The space Between the stars and you Love Love Love Love Please love Find me Please

Who the hell are you? To kiss me like that  Every time you turn away Feels like you take it right back But that glint in your eyes Reflecting all the lights Like stars into the sky Reaching towards me in the night

Who the hell are you? To kiss her like that Are there ever times You wish you could take it back Why can’t you look me in the eyes Is it because of all the lies The apathy you disguise By reaching for me in the night

It hurts The rot I feel it all crumbling away My heart My gut The lines on my face sink Into the empty inside of me Like a balloon Leaking air Getting small Sinking lower day by day Why did you fill me up Why did you let me fly so high Only to watch me fall And deflate I should have popped When I was still full In a glorious boom Shiny rubber stretched thin So delicate So vulnerable I wish I had exploded Into a hundred little pieces No more hurt Never empty Only gone It hurts The empty It hurts

She had never even touched a man. Mary often dreamed of finding a husband and starting a family. Nobody would have guessed that she would one day have a child out of wedlock and things are not what they seem. Will Joseph, the man she was betrothed to, find a way to love her and the son that doesn’t belong to him? Will they both face the wrath of social judgement to avoid the wrath of the God they believe in? Will love prevail over all else?

This just in! In an an astonishing act of nature and revenge, the south-pacific ocean has begun engulfing entire countries at a time! Licking at the shores like a bored kid in a barber shop, wave after wave decimates homes and farms. Entire towns are defenceless against the cruel and eager hands of Mother Nature!

Bright red Irises absorb the bloody light A black hole of colour Amongst cloudy September A splotch of feeling, Vulnerability bundled and tucked Beneath small trembling arms Clutching onto dying flowers As if they are all the warmth All the warmth in the world Somebody saw me Somebody loved me Can you believe it? But too soon Because it’s sooner that forever Petals dull And the glow dissipates Into the rest of time and air Like a drop of blood in water Like a sizzle of smoke in the air After the extinction of a flame Petals fall and The memory of the bouquet The moment you were loved Spreads thin in existence And disappears into everything else But that red red red love Is a stain that won’t come out

Clawed feet scratch the dirt Left left right right left right Through the maze For a pointless prize Even if I make it I am right back where I began A piece of cheese A piece of bread A gentle hand I scurry and crawl With everything I have But to what end There is no end In the end I bite the hand that feeds me So that maybe it’ll let me starve Then I can really end The maze with no

The flames lick and tickle I feel so warm I could sleep here forever Not too close Not too far Enough to light the way And cause no harm

The flames sting and sizzle I think I’m dying Ripped apart by the heat Consumed By the once gentle beast Charred and ugly I waste away in my suffering

The fire is gone I’m numb and I’m cold I miss being warm At least it hurts less Than the burning