Writing Prompt

Years slip by

Like sand through glass

From up-close

Through the lens

Of the now

Years ahead feel

Like stretched units of time

Far away

Unreachable

As you glimpse

Through yesterdays

And past eras

Years become simple dots

Inhales

Exhales

Single events in your existence

Time is a silent master

Dictating our lives

Flowing effortlessly

It takes away the present

Leaving us aching

When today already...

In the gloom of the forest, where shadows flare,

Mist clings to the earth with a ghostly glare.

Creatures lurk in silence, their eyes agleam,

Caught in the stillness of a haunted dream.

Beneath the branches, the night's breath stirs,

Shadows beckon, the boundary blurs.

Lost souls tread through the mossy trees,

Gathered in places where the world cannot see.

The moon hangs heavy, a pale, mournful ...

The wind carries you away

I blow kisses

Will they make it your way

I need to say goodbye

Forced

Out of sight

Trying to get you out of my mind

I need to survive

Final whispers

Wandered away without a care...

Shrieks sound as pure and full of emotion as a violin.  And chokes are the drums. Whimpers pluck my ears like a piano.  I could soak up the sound for years.

Sobs echo like trumpet.

Like my very own parade.

I am the conductor.

I wave my arms, bellow: decrescendo!

Then their bodies add panache  to the floor.

I frown. This song is done.

Final whispers  wander away without care....

You told me I was important

It mattered what you thought

Silly me thinking you cared

But it looks like I was wrong

Admitted you’re good at lying

But I hoped it was a joke

Until you told me we were friends

And I was blinded by the smoke

We talked about my issues because

You were so sincere when you asked

Turns out that you were lying again

And I want my secrets back

Now when I see you I feel ...

My anxiety followed

All of this life

Leaving trails

Of regret

I’ve know so little

Beyond this broken brain

Before the embrace of light

Came to me in the night

As I fed myself

What I desired

Felt myself slipping

Blade in hand falling

Oblivion calling

Now I rest

Anxiety dead

I’m no longer tired

Cutting knife

Flash of steel

Once to deep

Final whispers wandered

Away without a care....

TW

When life gives me lemons

I have trouble making lemonade

I mean when life is difficult who makes lemonade

We all look for an escape

My escape lies within the knife on the counter

When I’m frustrated and sad

The whispers increase

The tingling in my arm

The shaking of my hand

I want one thing and that is too cut

Quickly I grab the knife

The blade is cool in my hands

I lock myself behi...

I watched you pack your things

Filling box by box

Taping away all the memories

Silence lingers in the air

Only the sound of you shuffling hurriedly across the hard wood

As I stand with watery eyes begging you not to go

There’s used to be a time when I thought we would see it through to the end

But your heart is as shallow as my hope for that is now

It is all I can do to stand here

Playing prete...

I don’t know how they manage to attract such curiosity

How what they write isn’t a dreadful atrocity

Carrying such a gift doesn’t seem fair

Especially when I’ll work till my mind breaks just to get there

I’m supposed to find my sound amongst the flood

But in digging for it I’ve gotten drenched in blood

And the bandages that once held me together recoil at my touch

They say the answer to healing ...

There are very few people I love,

I like a lot of people,

But there is only three,

My beautiful boyfriend

And my two best friends

There used to be another,

She was my platonic first love,

I knew her for 11 years before she left

She talked behind my back

Revealed the secrets we whispered

The words we shared

The promises we made, she broke

She was one of many I loved,

And now I can love no one r...