I woke up with the sun shining on my face. It took me a few minutes before the events of last night came rushing back to me. I grab my phone hoping against hope that Draya had changed her mind and tried to contact me. My heart sank when I saw that there were no new messages or voicemails, no missed calls, nothing. I should’ve known. I wanted to cry and scream and fall apart all at once but at the ...

Lately I’m angry all the time

I fight so many thoughts

Before I can finally shut my eyes

Yet when I awake

The anger still resides

Tell me, are you pleased?

Does this bring you some delight?

I’m tired of being so cranky all the time

I believed you

When you said you would stay

Yet, as usual

All you’ve gone and done

Is push me away

Are you satisfied?

That what used to be love and longin...

Ring!

The bell rings, fourth periods over! Yes!

You are about to jump out of the door but you math teacher calls you over.

Dang, what does he want now? You wonder.

He gives you that scary, sly look that most teachers have these days.

“You got an F on your math quiz, please try Better next time.”

“No! No no no! I thought I did good!”

You whine like a little puppy.

He sighs, “No you didn’t. You can...

It tricks you. It burns then leaves a trail of black chard, black smoke and silence. It is also bright and beautiful with it dancing colors of red, of orange and yellow. It leaves behind death but the. Come growth of new new colors of greens, purples, blues, and everything in between, new songs. New life....

Afterwards, all I’m left with are broken dreams and promises, the smell of burnt love letters, and a sound like static on the radio, mixed with the noise an engine makes and the clash of steel pans, and the rain falling in inky pools.

***

In my mind, it’s night, and the birds are screaming, the foxes shrieking, babies howling.

It’s raining, not a heavy stormy rain, but a thick mist that gets in...

fuck your silver linings

they never got me anywhere

you played me like the fool i was

because you knew you had my heart

in your freckled hands

and how i lay awake

or dreaming

at night with you and

you and you and you

and your touch

on my cluttered mind

you took my chance

and threw it at someone else

shut me out

and flew away

i showed you my dark side

did it scare you?

i let you in

did ...

I have no idea how it happened. I never meant for it to happen. Dear Bast, forgive me.

It started as a normal day. I woke up, stretched, and wandered downstairs. Ate some breakfast, washed it down with some nice, cool water, and planned my naps for the the day.

But then, I smelled it. The herb. That glorious herb which is a glory and and a bane to all feline kind. Catnip.

It was sprinkl...

We won!

My final war.

But what happens now?

I have dedicated my entire life,

My education,

My future to the military.

But now it’s done.

They won’t let me back in,

I won’t be able to fight.

My life is worthless,

After the aftermath.

I have to go ‘home’.

A foreign name,

To a person who grew up on the streets,

Then fought in wars around the globe.

I don’t have money,

My family doesn’t have money,

O...

your love was so sweet

but under it lay

a hidden heart of lies

that manipulated your prey.

you forced open my walls

with a pry-bar of honey

i lowered my defenses

and you swept in with an army

you earned my trust

then you threw it away

trampled it in disgust

and left me in shame

shattered and alone

now i remain

my heart is in pieces

and i’ll never trust again

i’ll rebuild my walls

glue my h...

The aftermath of you was something no person should have to experience. As quickly as you walked into my life you tore your way back out leaving no part unbroken. The black pit that used to be my heart aches at the sound of your name. Even in passing conversation the sound of your voice in the hall kills me the same. I cannot breathe anymore because I feel not worthy of air. You took a sweet innoc...