If heartbreak was a sickeness,

I would evidently be ill with thee.

My heart aches with every breaking beat,

As if it were made of cracking glass,

Waiting for its final shatter.

If heartbreak was a sickness,

I know it is within me.

Love is nothing but utter defeat;

I cannot win, so I must let it pass

Though why must it matter?

If heartbreak was a sickness,

Then there is surely no cure.

I a...

The ceiling is bumpy. It has these little nubs sticking out of it. I create constellations between them in my head. The ceiling is white. The ceiling is boring.

I try to lift my head and look out the window.

Nope.

Not gonna happen? Ok, head. Be that way. Give me a searing headache Every. Single. Time.

Jerk....

An impotent wind sock hung on the roof of the old barn. Jake scowled at it. Pete on the MadDog and Larry radio show’s said today was the perfect day for flying, slight wind from the east, no chance of precipitation, mild temperature. Carrying his soldiering gun, Jake walked into his garage not remembering what he had come out outside to get. Jake started filling his weather balloons with helium.

...

I never get a cold, okay. Like never. I don't even have to take medicine. Okay, now with all that out of the way, I have to confess, I don't feel so good today. My stomach is dueling with my intestines, and I'm fairly certain that my heart and lungs have switched places. It is not very good at all. How could it get any worse, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. I have been commissioned, along with the r...

Lola’s slender fingers of alabaster tremble significantly as she draws in a deep, heavy breath. She would deny the weight of which burned her chest, the soft racketing noise escaping her lips upon her next exhale was evidence enough she was struggling with the task at hand.

But she wouldn’t stop.

She couldn’t.

How could she, when giving up on this and admitting defeat filled her with such self...

Placing one step in front of the other

Standing in the gap for one another

Attempting greatness once again

Through my imagination and a pen

The simplest of desires, to just be

An uncluttered healthier mentality

Beaming with courageous optimism

Without my source it’s plain cynicism

Not in my own strength, not today

A heart full of worry and woe will betray

Desperate desires for ultimate fu...

I have no words to say

You wont be here to stay

I have a living breathing

Heart split in two

You’ve got my body

With nothing to prove

The red spills to blue

It seems you have to

Keep your mind inside

Why can’t I say

You’re not in the grey

In the black and not turning back

The stream of blood

Bleeds into the mind

But your curves are so divine

Here into now

I can’t wear a frown

I came to say

I’...

Peyton is carrying me back towards the camp. He has his hunting rifle strapped across his back along with his water container. I was making it more difficult for him to get back to camp so he could leave with the Watchers.

“Just put me down and run. You can’t be late and I’m just holding you back.”

He looked down at me and let out an exasperated sigh.

“In what world do you think I would ...

“Are you okay Momma?” I look down at my two year old and smile.

“Of course I’m okay sweet pea” I say as I carry on pushing the trolley, its squeaky wheels screeching in my mind. I look up to regain my composure but the lights are blinding. “I just have a little headache, that's all, I’ll be alright.”

We continue shopping for the next ten minutes, but the pounding in my head only gets worse. I ...

A hollowed out shell,

only a floppy husk remains,

now slowly repair...