Once in a blue moon

A true love that came all too soon

Wrong time right place

How I still dream of your face

Whistling your siren tune...

Home. Most think of warm fuzzy feelings, a place of belonging, the place to go after a long stressful day.

Home. A place I’ve come to dread. A place devoid of oxygen. A place, in which, I am gasping for air through collapsing lungs. A town full of ghosts stuck in a loop of the same old things. Days are all the same, thoughts become recycled. Where everything is washed in a clouded grey. Where all...

Everything was put together with care. The box clutched tight in his grip while the wind swirled and whipped. The boy, of only 17, staggered through the chilled midnight air to the darkest crossroads in the tiny town he called home.

The boy paused once he stood in the middle of the intersection. He reached one hand in his pants pocket for the crumpled-up piece that detailed all the instructions ...

Darling I’m doting on your smile

Why don’t you come and stay awhile

Please rest your aching bones

Take a break from gold thrones

A fool you are for doubting yourself

All while living on the high shelf

Incapable to see

Your potential like me

Delicately built, thoughtful mind

The word perfect simply defined

Brown eyes and blushing cheeks

The highs of mountain peaks

One truly better than deserve...

It’s a crystal clear connection

Heart threads tug, twist, and tangle together

Fond flirting ‘til we fall fast asleep

Our souls seek each other in a starlight slumber

At morning break I’ll be right beside you

Sunrise secret, grateful glances

Cup of coffee clutched warm in my hands

Wistfully I wait for you to wake

Fingertips tickle and trace against my skin

Dimpled darling, I’ll be forever fa...

This had become a normal occurrence. She would disagree with one of his proposals and he would wave that stupid photo in her face with a threatening smirk. It was always the same thing; something that had gone on way too long. He knew he could control her with that one simple photograph, it had been working for years. What he did not know, however, is that she was getting tired of it. Each time th...