Writing Prompt

Thank you

For everything

Of the things you have done

Thank you

For the fear

Of having no where to run

Thank you

For the pain

That left me in tears

Thank you

For the trauma

Over all these years

Thank you

For scaring me

Almost half to death

Thank you

For neglecting me

Only praying to be fed

Thank you

for making me

A better parent than yourself

Thank you

For showing me

What not to be myself

Than...

‘Thank you. For nothing’ You had said.

‘For nothing’ You had said.

Nothing?

What is ‘Nothing’?

Was helping you learn to fly,

Nothing?

Was helping you reach the stars,

Nothing?

Please, I am curious.

Was helping you out of the dark caves,

Teaching you to walk once again,

Was it all nothing?

I would beg,

I would plead,

Down on my knees,

For you to come back to me.

For you to fall into my arms o...

Monitors beeped harmoniously.

Wires and IV bags decorated along side his bed.

He laid so still, a statue of a man, as if Medusa herself taken him as her next victim.

I sat in the chair located in the farthest right corner, just staring. Watching each time his chest would rise and felt as if it took a century to fall back down. His breaths were becoming strained and despite the state he was in h...

Thank you for not being there after you put me in a state of despair.

For sometimes showing up and pretending as if you were always there.

Thank you for showing me I could still breathe with out air.

I crawled under your skin and made a home that I believed we could share.

Eventually the walls started melting around me.

It took a year to see losing you set me free.

Thank you for always putting...

They say everything will be ok

And some say that they won’t

Why should I listen to what people say?

It doesn’t matter if I don’t

This is life

Yes, I’m aware

But that doesn’t mean

I don’t have a right to be scared

People insane, people on drugs

Humans sticking to things they love

And I’m just in a corner alone; eyes shut, knees bent

Because everything is not a dove

The world is shit

Full of sh...

She pressed her cool hand to his now beating heart. “I am not permitted to this…” Her hand went to his head, to erase all memories of her.

But he took her hand and pressed it to his heart again. “My heart burns again thanks to you. Permit me to cherish all memories of you deep within, my lady.”

She looked at him uncertainly but all of that melted under his intense passionate fiery gaze. The hones...

I’ve been sober three years, did you know that?

Alcohol used to make me suicidal.

I think even now, it still would.

I wasn’t stupid for feeling weak, I was stupid for trusting the one person who wasn’t supposed to let me down.

And I guess I was tired of being let down.

I was let down a few too many times, I think.

That time, when I broke the windshield, and pushed a car across a busy inters...

I find myself laying in the middle of an isolated red rock that’s floating in nothing but darkness. I leap to my feet, searching for him. “Come out!” I shout. “Where are you?!”

Out of the darknees emerges a pair of immense, red eyes, piercing through the darkness. Then descending is a figure dressed in shadow, white hair and yellow fangs. A void in the center of it’s chest. It speaks, "You summon...

Dear mom,

I really hope you’re doing well.

I really hope you know

you put us kids through hell.

That first line is a lie

and I hope you can tell.

I don’t think you ever

really tried to get well.

I remember going door to

door to ask for food.

Do you not realize asking

a child to do that is fucking crude?

Cashing out the food stamps

just to snort your pills?

Signed me out of sophomore...

I have only two things I hate in this world. Pineapples on pizza, and negative people. Unfortunately for me, the heavens decided to punish me for an unknown sin, by sending Satans spawn down to earth and into my office. Did I say Satans spawn? I meant Daniel.

The only way I can describe him is a walking, talking news channel, blasting all but the worst terror going on in the world. If he talks ab...