Covered in stardust and ink

I know your tears

Surrounded by the dark

I know your laughter

Covered in stardust and ink

Although I am forgotten now

I will remember you...

A Villanelle

By Robert J. Nutt

They say it’s fine, or so the world conveys.

The games have changed; the rules are all remade.

When girls and boys were content, we laughed and played.

They twist the past to fit their modern ways.

What once was firm is now a blurred charade.

They say it’s fine, or so the world conveys.

A thousand voices shape the roles we play.

Yet rules are made, then twisted an...

A young girl hopes to find her prince one day

Someone to hold her, to save her

Oh to be a child again, to dream and to play

Dreams are for sleeping some might say

But there must be something deeper

Something more than living day by day

In that silent, empty bed you lay

Oh the curse of a faithless sleeper

The dreams you weave continue to fray

On painful nights you begin to pray

Begging God t...

There is a rotten thing

That lies at the bottom of the hill

And inside I hear them sing

There is an old man

Who listens to the birds

They have big wing spans

The thing is a shed

A wooden church so unholy

Within it is only one bed

There is a rotting thing

That lies in that bed

And I don’t know what it brings

The old man breathes his last

Flinching from his lungs

What was present is now past...

The bitterness brims and bubbles away

As the heart that once felt love overspills

Leaving only burnt ashes left to stay

Betrayal hurts more, as vengeance distills

As the heart that once felt love overspills

Venomous asps bite down on softest flesh

Betrayal hurts more, as vengeance distills

The surface punctures are now simply etched

Venomous asps bite down on softest flesh

Deception manifests ...

I am a kid at some institution

For kids who are in dire need of help like me

Who are lost, crazed, and act out of sin

We are seen as the jerks, the worst of them all

We are used, abused, treated like shit

So often, it is hard to recall

I sit in my small room

Just sitting there, wondering why am I here?

To endure such hardships, to feel such gloom

I sit there, as I held my stuffed bear

With a m...

A dream begins, started anew

Eager and optimistic, ready to fly

The dream goes by, forgotten when due

Plans are formed when skies are blue

When hope is strong, and spirits are high

A dream begins, started anew

But fleeting thoughts begin to coup

I will begin tomorrow, said with a sigh

The dream goes by, forgotten when due

But in this cycle, I've always had you

Believing in me when spirits are d...

Vines creep through cracked walls

Floors crack with ghostly patter

Ceiling broken, rubble falls

Insides ring with spectral laughter

dancing breaks through endless lull

an quiet ruin full of bursting chatter

...

Up on a hidden path on one lush green road

There was a grand view of a glistening home.

Gold glimmer and ancient royal ripples it showed

A cloaked man weary from escaping survival mode

Heaved and gasped at the site.

Alas, he could show emotion! This looked a humble abode.

Carefully the man approached, trying not to implode

As he knew to not fall victim to his hopes

Til now, his labors did not re...

You walked out the door

Maybe not in the traditional way

This might hurt even more

I feel it deep to my core

It was a form of running away

You walked out the door

It may have well been a war

but I was the one who lost that day

This might hurt even more

My feet, unstable on the floor

I feel tricked, led astray

You walked out the door

When you left, I swore

My heart broke, made from delicate cla...