Writing Prompt

one thousand

nights

ended in

a day

love

forgotten

in one

moment of hate

trust broken

with one

simple

mistake

words burning

holes

in our

hearts

tears paving

paths

through our

faces

blood running

thicker

than

water

and sugar

confused

with

salt

i thought

i liked

love until

i met you

now i’m

driving

away because

what else

should i do

when a thousand

nights

ended today...

This day was all. All I ever needed.

The culmination of a lifetime.

A lifetime of hopes and wishes cast up to the moon.

All at once came rushing toward me. Knocking me off of my feet.

Just the sight of you, winding me.

Reaching out to catch my breath.

Exhaled and gone.

This day was a thousand nights wound up.

Lived and remembered.

Loved and lost.

Would I change it?

Never....

Don’t think I don’t think,

One last bit,

How much I can’t think,

Without thinking about you.

These last thousand nights,

I’ve spent talking to the moon,

In hopes that she’ll see you sooner,

then I’ll ever get to.

That night we didn’t say much,

In fear that we’d say something way too soon.

Ten years have passed, and I’m still feeling blue.

Every day feels like a thousand nights.

A thousand nig...

I feel I have lived.

An old soul resides within.

Like a lone bird,

mind cast sail in the winds.

Again and again-replaying my old sin.

The sin of not loving myself,

Not believing in myself.

Something that I wish for,

Every other child.

But Now,

Time to cut the play.

As I dream a thousand dreams,

sad, forlorn. Serpentine.

As i’ve died thousands of times in one day,

My heart- bends,shakes, doesn...

“Breakfast.”

The sliver of light was mirage, a hallucination in an obsidian existence. A distant clang of metal remedied the world to raven feathers and coal dust

The familiar darkness stretched for hours, filling my lungs, my heart.

The manacles were wrapped forever-too-tight and my arms ached from where they were pinned above my head.

The cell was dark

heartstoppingdark...

Time goes by so very fast,

It’s always hard to remember the past.

Memories is all that they are,

Reaching back they are so far.

...

Only 24 hours to live

Only 24 hours to die

So tell me what will you give?

To save your own life?

Nights continue to blur

Days become a night

My words beginning to slur

No longer putting up a fight

Let my day just end

Let these night be a thing of the past

Because I will no longer pretend

That this night is not last...

As the blade hits my skin

My life flashed before my own eyes

A thousand nights in one day

All the nights I’ve sat up and cried

All the nights I drugged myself up

And all of a sudden I faded

I’m gone. ...

The strenuous start of the day accumulates my whole body with dread. My eye lids push their way open giving my eyes a few short moments to accustom to the intense brightness of the day. Even though, my room is much darker than you would expect for a summer’s morning.

I would say that when finally fully awake, I begin to realise what the day marks. But I never sleep deep enough to have any contro...

They knew she wouldn’t last till morning. When she’d got the diagnosis last year, she’d chosen a time to die. There was no cure. No hope. Only time.

Her loved ones gave her every experience they could in the months that followed. They travelled and celebrated life, the sadness never too far behind them. But M had made peace with her fate.

This was her last night. During the day, her parents an...