The smell of lemons

was once a comforting thought

He clung to it, was comforted in it

For this once was his place, was his spot

It once was reminders

of a shining sun and blue lake

Of launching paper boats

and then watching them brake

It once meant laughter

and warmth and joy

of parents who loved him

of him being a carefree little boy

But now these lemons

bring back dark shattered days

of yel...

One piece of a puzzle

One wheel of a bike

One word of a novel

One lego in an entire set

A yin without a yang

Light without the dark

Order without chaos

Silence without sound

One

Independent

Unique

Single

Alone

Solitary

Fractured

Disconnected

Meaningless.

A beautiful picture

A connected, moving machine

A piece of culture

A building, a structure for everyone

Yin and Yang

Light and...

The first lie Marie spent when she was six. She didn’t know the weight of this lie, she didn’t know what it meant. Her brother was annoying her, so she hit him and when his screams started she swore she didn’t do anything. Marie traded a third of her life for her parents to see right through her.

The second lie she spent at seventeen, trying to sneak away with her boyfriend. Trying to hide the w...

I’m not who I say to be

Please just let me free

It follows me, it surrounds me

Why are you here?

Why do I only see you in the mirror;

yet you come out in my dreams?

I’m not who I say I am,

You don’t know me.

You don’t know what I see,

What happens when I go unleased.

It’s terrifying, It’s inside of me.

I’m not who I say to be!

Theres this demon, this thing.

When I look in the mirror, it moc...

Winter season was heavy and suffocating. The air was sharp and bitter, the landscape under a blanket of unwelcoming snow.

Some people say they liked winter, but not her. Winter was her hell, but instead of intoxicating heat it was frigid and claustrophobic coldness, demonic enough to drag her into the depths of a deep, desperate depression.

She stayed inside most of those days, partly to av...

There once was a town of whimsy

bright lights that made you feel tipsy

it was all so fun

but you could never be done

in this dazzling town that makes you so dizzy...