Writing Prompt

C r a c k.

The sound of a neck snapped as punishment for this failed encore

C l i c k.

The sound of the gun that Saturday night that took your father’s life

T h u n k.

The sound of your head as you are knocked unconscious

S p l a t.

The sound of your sister as she lands on the cold paved ground

T i c k.

T i c k.

T i c k.

The sound of the bomb in your best friend’s luggage right befor...

Tick, talk. The clock strikes 12.

Lying in bed, all by myself,

Tick, talk. The clock strikes two.

Where are you? Is she there with you?

Tick, talk. The clock strikes three.

I hate it when you lie to me.

Tik, Tock. The clock strikes four,

Dear God, please let him walk through the door.

Tick, talk. The clock strikes five.

Are you laughing with her? Does she make you feel alive?

Tick, tal...

Blip

Blip

Blip

The icicle drips

Spring equinox ignored

The sun sits and mocks

Behind a cloud

The trees are bare and bored

How they had hoped

It would be time

For cherry blossom blooms

Instead skies gray

Til nearly May

An ever-present gloom

The calander said

It was an Equinox

Children huddle by windows

Praying for some respite

From freezing winds

From the constant barage of snow...

*Click*

My feelings locked in

The thoughts all hidden away

The questions and queries of he and she

All of it

Stuck.

All of it locked away

Nowhere else for them to go

*snap*...

CRASH!

CLASH!

My eyes flash

To the source of angry destruction—

He throws plates

And adds to the painful weights

Holding fear captive within me.

gulp

hiss

I swallow my beating breaths

As shards of glass

Cut my hands and knees.

I silently make pleas

For someone to save me.

Buzz

Whoosh

He leaves the house

And me in broken pieces.

The dread lingering pushes me to rise—

Forces me to open...

Vroooom

The engine of

His white Corvette

Hums

Snowflakes pitter

And patter

On the windshield

A car nearby

Honks because

We're speeding

We don't care

We roar the

Engine and fly

The radio bops

In the passenger seat

I curl in a blanket

Slussssh

The ice and snow flies

Out from under the car

Beep beep

More angry drivers as we

Fly around the bend

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeech

| I wanted to make th...

Tic.

Tic.

Tic.

The sound of a bomb before it blows.

He didn’t care?

He didn’t try at all?

The fuck am I here for?

Didn’t love me, didn’t fight.

He let me walk-

I felt like a pirate.

Out alone on a plank.

Didn’t try to sway my mind.

Didn’t try to make me stay.

He grabbed ahold of my heart.

Ripped it out with bloody nails.

And laughed as I bled.

Blade in my back.

Heart on my ...

BAM!

I jumped

What the hell?

I felt a chill

And was too afraid

To turn to see what I

Knew was behind me. I feared

The worst. And that made it much worse

I gained the courage to turn. My fist

Clenched tight. i twirled. it swayed and i missed. WHOOSH!...

Sonic boom

Looming

In the distance

Not quiet

Or silent

But loud

Is the sound

Of the air

As it streams

Through the screams

But the windows

Don’t crack....

*Krackaboom!*

Behold a piece of hail

That I’ve brought inside

To the cosy house where

My family resides.

This piece of hail,

No bigger than a stone,

Can be the cause of many problems such as

Electrical outage, broken bones.

So behold! This piece of nature

So powerful yet small!

Beautifully imperfect,

A bumpy icy ball.

So examine it! Love it!

It’s something to adore.

Hey, where’d it go,

And wh...