Elle always had long beautiful brown hair. Her boyfriend, Olive, always adored it. It perfectly framed her freckle filled face and was always soft as silk.

For years Elle's mother would brush, braid, and play with her hair. It was a nice change from her fathers smoky scent of cigarettes and the constant fighting. After her parents divorced her mother let go. She wasn't around family as often, an...

On Sunday,

I walked into your grandmother’s room

And sat with her while no one else bothered,

Listening to the rise and fall of her breathing machine.

She took my hand

And told me her husband has been gone for thirty years

But he’s standing in the doorway now

And she’s ready to go dance with him in Heaven’s golden ballroom.

On Monday,

I slipped into the baby’s crib

And hushed his cries with the ...

Mary goes on Sunday, Mari on fri,

My heart aches as my memory begins to fade.

Jonah next week, during his latest feat,

Jumping off a cliff,

yet he didn’t know that Terius would cut the lift,

before diving down after,

Crying out as he fell faster.

Save me from this mess, I once was so innocent,

Yet a few centuries anywhere, can make you wish for fresh air,

Going stir crazy within my head...

You’ve flirted with me all your life

but I’ve never let you go

all the way. A kiss here

a kiss there, remember that night

you were going ninety, driving

all night to get to me. You swerved

and swore and your breath

was visible and filled the car. Your lips

brush against mine

I cradle your face in my hands. I’m death

but you kill me....

I wasn’t always this way.

Once,

I held love

Instead of hate

In my ribcage.

Once,

I held another

With delicacy

Instead of crudeness

In my phalanges.

Once,

My bones

Cared.

These bones

Cared.

That time is over now.

This world

Hurt her.

It hurt her

So much

That she had

To leave it.

She had

To leave

Me.

It’s your fault.

It’s all of your faults

That she left me.

I m...

i wish i could be death

he told me

and every day

i could pick who dies

and the decisions

would be easy

the bitch that cheated on me

day one

the guy she did it with

day two

the kid who called me a queer

in middle school

day three

the jerk-off who cut me off

this morning

day four

he continued on and on

while i drank on and on

and he finally got to

day forty-four

and asked me

who would you kill

an...

I look through my book every day at 5 o’clock

And I try to pick my prey

Maybe the one with the heart condition

Maybe the one that is loved

Maybe the one with the tumor

Maybe the one that is far too young

I am the bringer of doom

And the dread of the night

But I make she you go

Quick and silent

(Well, most of the time)

Am I a monster

For taking people’s lives?

Am I a monster

For loving the sound...

Life is in my hands

It’s always my choice

It’s up to me to decide

No one else has a voice

Who will I take

To my home today

Everyone hates me

They don’t want loved ones taken away

Of course I feel bad

That they can’t roam the earth

But when I take them away

Someone else gives birth

It’s a beautiful cycle

Of which I’m in control

Every day I welcome in

A new lost soul

I am death

And you m...

At the crossroads, they gather and plead,

Each face tells a story, each breath like a sigh—

But I, the reaper, choose who must die.

They bargain and beg, they weep and they pray,

Yet the Fates have no mercy, they won’t sway.

Anubis below, with his commands,

But it’s Destiny’s thread that I snip in my hand.

The Scythe always swings, quiet and grand.

And though they fear me, I take no stand—

I sim...

I always chose someone I didn’t know.

I never let it affect me.

Until I realized how much it did.

_‘Frida Navada_’

My hands shook as I wrote the name.

What if they had a family? A bunch of friends?

I shoved any feelings of empathy aside and quickly licked the letter and sealed it shut. I don’t have any room left for empathy, so why won’t it stop banging at my door? I slipped letter in the mail ...