Writing Prompt

This was during my uni years, I was really struggling at one point with finances.

I just had gotten fired from my part-time job and was stressed about making rent.

I had a friend at the time, one of those that looks you in the eyes and sees your soul. She would always know when something was up and no amount of bullshit was tolerated. She read me like an open book.

On our breaks we would go on t...

Robyn looked at her feet. She had ran through the forest and her boots were fairly untouched by the snow-blessed mud. She reminisced her training in the forest with her master. A kind and benevolent man. She grew up with no mentor other than him. He would shoot an arrow that would pierce through several trees. He could skewer several birds in one shot. He taught her her favourite skill yet. Being ...

Softly, he took her into his arms

The happiest he’d ever been

At 18

Waiting for us to join him

But he was light years ahead...

Grandfathers eyes narrowed as he glanced over from his chair beside the fireplace “Do you want to talk about it?” he said softly. I sighed. I didn’t want to talk. I didn’t know how. Or what I’d even say. He knew that too but he always asked anyway. The warmth of the fire beside him called out to me. I kicked the heel of my boots to remove them, water spilling out as I pulled them off. A cold shive...

Wise with words

Wise with confidence

Wiser with knowledge than without

Wiser with experience throughout

Clean cut image

Perfect straightforwardness

Liked by so many

Envied by many more

Thinking before saying

Respect and politeful

Always using their brain

To avoid the most spiteful

Mind over matter

Is a rule that they follow

Like respectfulness is key

A concept easier to swallow...

Wise men say little

That isn't well considered

So take good advice....

I think the wisest person would be who had been through most. Thick and thin. Their experiences that changed them. Not the one with most academical knowledge but the one with knowledge of life. The one who understands your thoughts and feelings, who is kind and caring.

I think the wisest person is the kindest person....

Inside of a five-foot-three body lies a heart and a brain. Although the body itself may be aging fast, the heart and the brain stay young. The heart has been hurt quite a lot, and the brain has learned from it. From what was a sweet, innocent girl became a fierce, grounded, and level-headed woman. Everything she has learned has come from experience. She had no one to pass knowledge down to her. Th...

“Screw that, man”. He spoke from the kitchen, hands in his corduroy trouser pockets. He was barefoot, after slipping his knock-off sliders against the warm radiator. His plaid shirt hung loose off his shoulders. “Who cares anyways?”, he continued, staring out the window. The floodlights of the soccer pitch below our apartment cut through the winter darkness, and he was often in the habit of vacant...

My mom is wise I am a shy she always says “ in 10 years what will it matter,” or “ what will happen if you ask and they say no where you better of before or after.”...