In my lifetime, I’ve discovered,

We all have shades to be uncovered.

Shades of beauty, shades of pain,

Shades of joy and shades of rain.

Some bring happiness, set us free,

Moments filled with purest glee.

Some bring teardrops to the eye,

Moments when we question why.

Desperate for a love that's true,

For someone who can see us through.

To hold our shades within their hands,

To understand what e...

Aid me in my thievery

Will you?

Desperate

We stalk the night

Looking for a sign of life

Closer to the car they lurk

Shifting in their seats

We smirk

Shades, the neighborhood cat

comes out to play

“Shoo!” we say

“Go away!”

Not tonight,

Another day

Humming,

Hoping we go away

“Give us your car or you’ll get hurt!”

They lay face down in the dirt

We take the cat

and steal their keys

We s...

Desperate for a breakthrough

A reason to breath easy again

At peace only for a minute or two

The facade is hell to maintain

Who knew life could come

In so many shades of hurt

It would be grace to feel numb

To be able to channel it into my art

Allow myself the aid I crave

Make the healing permanent

Handover the driving seat to faith

Let my hope be forever prominent...

What once was broken,

You’ve mended, awoken.

What once was shattered,

You pieced back the tattered.

What use to be dark and dreary-

Now bright, but no longer cheery.

You’ve been there-

No, it’s not fair.

I don’t deserve you.

But together we grew…

- Thank you, my love.

Truly an angel from above.

_____________________

Desperate, I was…

Needed someone to be there.

One day I jumped from the hi...

I rest my head upon a rock

This is where my weary bones shall lay

My thoughts and trepidations blocked

Till I inevitably wither away.

A distant echo in the woods

Makes me ache me like a clarion call

Pain, desperation and all the goods

Take over as I wait to fall

I rise and stand, broken yet whole

As I prepare to take my last steps

Tears down my cheek, I bare my souls

Hesitation never really hel...

They were in desperate times but she would never let it show. Whenever she finds herself tired from walking, she just puts on a facade and forces herself to continue their journey. And as always it’s the same worries in her mind as her legs felt like they were about to give out. What will she and her father do if they don’t make it in time? The quicker they get to their destination and sell their ...

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I’m still a kid....

Desperate to leech,

Make this your life.

Practice what you preach,

Just to live in strife.

Shades of pain,

It’s a matter of degrees.

Claw my skin again,

Just to make you agree.

Aid came in the pit,

Held my own ribs at sunrise.

Saw myself as the culprit,

Of all I despise

Out of the shade,

I rise from this Styx.

Seeing of what I was made,

Love and empathy was the mix....

A sharp shot of aching paint whips my inner thigh. Ignoring it I keep running, pushing my legs as hard as they will take me. They give way. My hands reach out in front of me as I plummet full speed to the ground. My face is met with the cold dry surface of autumn morning leaves. I focus my eyes to the trees above, seeing the empty sky. I hope I’ve outrun them. Desperate for more coverage I crawl t...

I saw different shades of black in my head after I hit my head. I was desperate for some help any type of aid but of course no one came. I’ve slowly sinking into this pit and now I felt like I couldn’t even breath. After a while I’ve come to terms that no one would come to help me so I would have to get out of here myself. I started to get up only to immediately crash back down it felt like my bon...