Writing Prompt

It should have been me That’s what I think when I see him With her His smile and laugh His hand wrapped in hers I really tried I talked to you Or I tried to I thought what I did was nocited Everytime you smile I cry because it’s never been for me It’s such a perfect smile A smile that fills me with hope But it’s never been for me I used to think it would I’d imagine everything about you Your laugh would echo with mine Your perfect eyes would always watch mine Even your lips Yeah I dreamed of those to I wanted to know what it would feel like Ever since that day When you made me realize What it was I wanted in life I wanted romance Love and even heart break I wanted to smile at the thought of you But more than anything I wanted you to want me too Is it selfish? To want to be wanted? Or is it more selfish To blame him for losing For losing me I’m not gone Not yet But every day I see his messages His words and his name I wonder are you really interested in me Or are you just being who you are The nicest most beautiful person ever I’ve told you things And just last week You told me something But everytime this happens When I feel us connecting I start looking Over the fence Over the roofs of houses Over the small trees and people I start seeing us walking down the street Hand in hand Laughing and smiling I see you stop and lean down To me I see us together And it’s perfect And then it all fades away All because I looked into the future Because I wanted it to be that way So I’ve learned That I’m never going to look again If we’re meant to be Friends or more Then it will be your eyes that stray Over the hill To mine

Over the hill, beneath the tree, We lay upon the dew-kissed grass. Embraced in passion, ever free, A moment too precious to ever last. The fleeting hours, a stolen fire, Consumed us in its golden gleam. But like a dream, or heart's desire, It faded with the morning's beam. Now I wander like a ghost, Through empty fields where laughter died. To you, the one I loved the most, I’ll see you on the other side. Though time may quench the embers' glow, And time itself may turn to dust, No amount of rain or snow, Could drown the flame that burn for us.

i’m over the hill now driving away from my home my nails dig into the wheel acres for my soul to roam the salt stings my eyes and my phone won’t stop ringing my mother would be so disappointed but i’m far from her upbringing push my foot down the cameras are all clicking but i don’t care now the clock is still ticking pass the graveyard the ghosts call my name arms reach out to touch me to join them, i came eyes start to close my foot will gently slip the ground is getting rough like i’m losing my grip my heart feels like it’s breaking i’ll pop another pill i’m over the hill now and everything’s still.

“How are you?”, I ask Are you well now that you left? Ran. Over the hill?

When you finally find happiness, Or that feeling you were searching for, I’d say you’re finally ‘Over the Hill’ The same claim many people swore, Everyone chases their goals, ambitions, and desires Of the glittering horizon of the world, Most are unable to climb it For ‘Over the Hill’ is obscured and furled There is always the edge chasing it is futile always another, the distant blue is only brutal

Over the hill lay rows of crosses, Poppies bloomed along with pride, Everyone pays respects to the soldiers, They fought long and hard for our lives.

Grass is often greener on the other side With the true feelings one may hide And often you may ponder What is over yonder Is it roads of gold? Or a fortune foretold? Is it all you’ve hoped and dream Or an elegant stream Is it a field with a beautiful meadow House owned by a rich fellow? What is over the hill? Is it the pill? The one that will fix Make your head not in a mix What you think is over the hill The type of life that’d you’d kill Isn’t all that glitters, nor gold No treasure to behold For on the other side they ask the same In life it’s the most pitiful game For in the other side Of this insidious ride The other side is the same as yours That I can be sure

How much we love each other An anniversary surprise Pictured Rocks Your gift to me despite your fear of heights Let me take your photo Back up you say Take it all in from First date to first grand baby That woman just one of many That woman you talk to late into the nights she is seconds Our love is decades Cool sandstone heavy No one understands How much I love you In this our marriage Indian summer What we have weathered Ribbons of iron ore red, copper green, and limonite revel Our love is stone polished Back up a little more baby you say You send me to the edge I’d go to the edge for us My knee the one that always gives me troubles gives out I stumble back My hand that has reached for yours In the dark When I’m afraid For years stretches out now I reach, you run You kick, I drop Like a stone Tumbling to the pebbled shore far below No one understands How much you love me

i find it hard to see over the trees and in between on this hill i stand seeking to form a bond in nature and man the call of the wild is in us all we are progressing, forth we crawl mother nature is our home in my heart, love has grown i want to share this feeling not many know of it, they’ve gotten greedy with all the money and time they can easily manipulate our minds nature is first always without it, we’d see our last days let’s put the greed to rest this planet is our home, let’s do our best

It used to be so thrilling every birthday, To realize all I had ahead of me, But soon excitement faded away, And I didn’t want another. My friends are eclectic, And more flakey than I, So parties do not tend to work, Just RSVP no. My family’s a mess, Most just straight up don’t care, The ones that did love me Are no longer there. It’s a lonely existence, Feeling the space between us, Wishing I could rewind or fast forward, And we could once again be us.