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Mariah Moreland

Mariah Moreland

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Mariah Moreland

Mariah Moreland

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Glass

Mariah Moreland

1 min read

It’s magical. The way that the land and the sea meet. The goldfish, so majestic, looks at me through the glass, the only thing that separates us. I want to know what she’s thinking, I want to be inside of her mind for only a moment to understand what it must be like to be on the other side of the glass. The side of the glass where the water consumes you; the side of the glass where you can swim an...

Remain

Mariah Moreland

1 min read

I can see it. It’s getting closer.


A little more.


Just a little more.


All I can think about it reaching the shore.


My hands grasp the soft earth below me, the salt stings the cut on my leg. I pull myself up out of the cool water and gasp with effort. Oh how it hurts!


I roll onto my back panting the salty air in. I’m so tired. My head pounds with excruciating pain. I just want to go back hom...

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Winter’s Night

Mariah Moreland

1 min read

He held a cup of hot chocolate in his hands as he sat by the fire, warm and bright. Outside light snow fell, covering the ground in soft white. The wind was cool, knocking against the window panes flakes with snowflakes. Inside, jazz music played, quieting the fireside room with peace. He leaned back, finally relaxed. Drifting off sleep; dreams filled with hope and soundness. And there he slept, ...

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Slipped Away

Mariah Moreland

1 min read

I wish I had never let go

Now I’m on this terrible low

Thinking of life without you

Lies fill my head instead of what is true

The moment I decide to let go

I was far far from home

The moment our fingers no longer

Touched the moment I was no longer stronger.

How miss your soft touch

You laugh oh how I miss much

Yes the saddest thing I ever did

Was the moment I let go and hid

From your kindness...