Writing Prompt

Joys of childhood are found

In simple pleasures and games—

Tea parties with princess crowns,

“Tag! You’re it!” “Ready or not!”

The Medal of Honor was giv’n

In attitude, not words,

To the victor who could not be found

“Olly, olly, oxen free!”— a just reward....

I store my secrets in a special place only I know of

Where there is no judgement on my tears

I hide what I don’t want the world to see

Often out of fear, they won’t understand me

I hide memories of you there

Still to raw for my heart to replay

Maybe one day those feelings will dissipate

This pain will fade away

This place inside holds all of my deepest wounds

The ones to painful to view

The...

5!

4!

3!

2!

1!

I’m coming to get you!

you can run

you can try to hide

but I’ll find you

you hide

well I seek

and I’ll always find you

you can’t escape me

I’m unavoidable

you’ll always come back to me

I’ll always find you

you’ll be safe in my arms

don’t worry

come to me

you can’t escape me, anyways

so give in

come to me

and if you don’t

if you stay

in your little hiding place

that’s fine, too

you b...

I have a spot

Not our usual one

No it’s somewhere you’d never think

To look

You might find the clues in my face

If you pay attention

For more than one wasted night

If you make your tracings

Reveal my footprints that drag

Because I’m tired of hiding

And I’d rather be found now

Clinging to a branch or stuffed in a box

Please figure it all out

I’m getting bored and lost....

My body laid in the field

Where the goldenrod grows.

For a hundred years of winter

And a millisecond of spring

To be dried out in the absence of the sun.

And now

No one wants me in their garden....

I’m infinitely curious but equally breakable

Too soft to bury a truth unmistakable

So I search for the truth but then swaddle a lie

Why stare into hell when you could hide in the sky?

My faith is a phone I dropped down the gutter

When clarity honks my exhaust pipes sputter

Burrowing as deep in the sand as the buildings are tall

Seeing everything demands feeling nothing at all

So I plead wi...

We all have a place in mind

Where we go when we need to hide

When the world is crashing around us

It keeps us safe and soooths our fears

It’s our one true hiding place...

…

Tic

Tic

Tic

Tic

I really need something to scratch that

Itch

Itch

Itch

Itch

You really acting like a

Bitch

Bitch

Bitch

Bitch

Might crash into a

Ditch

Ditch

Ditch

Ditch

Off a pill

Hope it’s real

I love weed

I love beams

Chopper with a scope

Popped a narc

Don’t blame me

I can rap

I can sing

I can tap

In her dreams

On her knees

Gimme please

Choked and sneezed

I’ve be...

I am here

At my home

Drinking beer

While searching using Google Chrome

I am alone

Sitting and doing nothing

Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, but being alone

And doing………………………………………NOTHING

JUST BEING Here BY MySELF

OVER AnD OvvER

BeeING Nothing As MySELF

L00kking Att Nothing but A taTto off A Clovver

Haveiing N0 0Ne to talk to, Too be wITH, Too L0ve

Just looking At tHIS WhITE, Wh...

when the world gets too loud

and my weary bones beg for rest

home is where i go

is where i feel best

every little trinket, book, and poster i see

eases my troubled mind

my room is a reflection of me

so this is where i’ll stay and rot

this is my hiding place

i like it a lot...