Writing Prompt

From sorrow to hurt

You changed me

Scared of rejection

Scared of being you

From hurt to anger

You left without saying bye

You never saw my sleepless nights

You weren’t there to see me cry

From anger to hate

It all just boiled

The memories toiled

Of the love you spoiled

I hate myself for loving you

I hate you for pretending to care

From hate to rage

I feel like an animal in a ca...

The magnolia sighs a mournful tune,

As twilight drapes the Spanish moss in gloom.

Mockingbird's melody, once sweet and high,

Now whispers low, a lonesome, sobbing cry.

The honeysuckles’ scent, once playful on the breeze,

Holds sorrow's weight ‘neath heavy, drooping trees.

The sun descends, a fiery, lonely sphere,

Reflecting pain in waters dark and clear.

A shadowed path, where laughter used t...

The water’s warm, but I’m still cold.

I’m still thinking, under this boiling pressure.

I want you to be infatuated with me, like I am.

You’re aware of my mind, of how I view your people.

You think I’m bad, you haven’t met the right people yet.

I might be blind, but I’ve seen the maze your home is.

The water’s turned cold, but I’m boiling.

I don’t love you, but I want you.

And,

I n...

_Hatred_: intense dislike or ill will

I tend to have lots of hatred.

Hatred for the world

Hatred for injustice

Hatred for disrespect

Hatred for the way I am

_Why am I so short?_

_ Why do I never feel joy?_

_ Why am I so negative?_

_ Why do I look like this?_

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I always remind myself I’m the way I’m supposed to be

But is that the case? Am I missing something?

When I write and read,...

Just a stranger with a face I used to know

I can still feel the warmth of your embrace

You always had voice of an Angel

Now all I hear are echos of love that ran dry

You had a laughter that could light up the room. I let my stupid heart fall for you too soon

You were my lover, though I could never find the words to express that. Every day I saw you I gave into my heart every day I thought ...

I would look at the days forecast to plan everything accordingly,

All to avoid getting soaked.

If that happened my internal response,

“Just my luck”

Who am I to deprive myself of something so natural?

Rain.

No judgement.

It doesn’t care what Im wearing

Where I am going

Where I am coming from.

It doesn’t point out the mistake I made the day before.

It’s willing to cover me.

It’s not avoiding m...

You look familiar,

Something about the glint in your eyes;

When I talk, when she talks, when we talk.

You look the same,

As the devil at night;

As sinful, lustful, disgusting as the devil at night.

Something about you…

About your hands, your devilish teeth, your shushing, and-

Something about you looks familiar,

As I was a child....

Basset hounds after the deer.

A lion after a weak zebra.

A cat playing with a mouse.

The howls of a new hunt, bark, bark, barking through the tall pines that sway with the breeze of a cloudy, bruised day.

Murder, oh the horror. Crimson on the jaws of a magnificent beast, drip, drip, dripping down its mane, matted in golden fur.

The calls of a bird, tweet, tweet, tweeting from the tops of trees,...

It’s sad to think that your gone

I won’t hear you come down the stairs anymore. The silence was deafening at feeding time even Hershey looked for you

It’s sad to think I won’t see a black nose and eyes from the other side of the table at dinner. It’s hard to think your not there begging for food

It’s hard to bare not seeing you on the couches it’s painful to not call your name anymore

It h...

You fell for the green leaves

But the roots hadn’t finished growing.

Summer seems amazing

But autumn makes it all unravel...