Writing Prompt

Today I saw your face and I know you saw mine.

We locked eyes but you seemed to forget who I was.

Have all those memories vanished? I’m now a stranger to the one I loved.

I don’t even know where you reside or who’s by your side when your down.

How can I be fine when you are no longer mine.

The air feels dry and all I want to do is cry.

I saw the lives, I saw the socials and now I’m blocked

But to...

Time had never passed so slowly

Her heart felt like a ticking bomb,

like at any moment it could erupt

Her mind moved quickly while real-life

seconds stretched long

Spinning rooms, shaking hands, shallow breaths, sinking sand

Quickly, quickly falling down, seems like there is no way out

Time even seems to stop, her pulse quickens, heart drops

Tick, tick, tick

Trapped by her own skin...

She walks towards the sun kissed lake

Silver locks soon break away

Reveal the golden eyes she hides

And now she reaches for the sky

From sunrise to dawn

She watches serenely

Like moon light and orchids

I’m dearly rewarded

Now gentle snow cakes the field

I relish the dream and now I yield

To sit and watch becoming lonely

Time never passed so slowly...

T/W grief, cancer

Mum smells like roses

She claps more than anyone

She is proud of me

I then take a bow

Music lives because of you

My mum, my dear mum

We avoid the word

But it’s there in melodies,

memory: cancer

Now words elude me

My fingers die on the keys

Love is lost to me

I haunt with my song,

my empty compositions

Music is dying

The bird stops chirping

As I play the fun’ral song

I stum...

Time had never passed so slowly

before the days we spent roaming.

Together or not, minds brought

to thoughts of hands, breath,

heart rhythm, and home....

The breeze was soothing as if kissing our skin, and the night sky was calming almost as if God was setting the perfect stage. I hold you tight in my arms, the smell of your hair and your perfume fill my nose with exctasy. The only sound I hear is your breath as I lay my head on your shoulder. Even though you are wrapped in my arms I am surrouned by your warmth, being vulnerable with you made me fe...

That day, that conversation, and the smell of alchohol will forever remain in my mind. You embody everything I despise and showed me a little bit of it all in one sitting. This is supposed to be a happy reunion of father and son where we sort our differences yet you insult everything I love, you disparage everything I cherish and you mock me for my lack of dreams. How could I possibly take this as...

Rain, despite it being the most important day, thrashed against the metal roof of the church.

A day I thought would be only full of sunny rays, consumed by soggy ground and gloomy clouds.

The day went on and expectations were low,

Then the sun shone and reminded us that the storms we face never last forever.

Moments later, I walked out,

Veil softening my silhouette; dress shining with the sun,...

I was falling out of life, my breath flickered as her face blinked before me.

Her cheek, soft as a blanket of tree tops beneath my finger tips.

My hand slipped down her face, over that swollen mountain range.

I dragged her wet trail of tears down to my chest. It was heaving, begging.

A desperate, exhausted ‘love you’, escaped my lips, breaking through the sun-bleached desert plains.

Her eyes c...

You left my nose running,

Like a faucet that won't stop,

Dripping endlessly,

Leaving me in a state of discomfort,

Searching for a tissue,

To stop the flow of mucus,

But you, my dear, are nowhere to be found.

Your absence is felt keenly,

As I sniffle and sneeze,

Attempting to clear my sinuses,

But all in vain,

For you are not here to offer comfort,

Or fetch me some medicine,

To ease my symptoms an...