Esme Calder

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Esme Calder

Hey! I lost access to my other account, so this is my new account. My last account is the link found below!

https://dailyprompt.com/profile/qc6pGpDXOGQg28i43jrtbdFS2GF2

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Twice

Esme Calder

1 min read

I broke my rules for you

As the sky had broken with my rain

Twice did the swinging bells ring

Twice did the wind chimes sway

Twice were chances given for you to hit true

But alas, both arrows missed the target

Because both were aimed for my heart

And silent, bleeding, did I take the bow

I broke my beliefs for you

As each line was rewritten in red ink

Burning pape...

Poetry

YA fiction

Mirror

Esme Calder

2 min read

"Why are you afraid, what do you fear?"

"I'm not"

"You are, you just don't want to admit it, that a danger is near"

"I'm not afraid, I don't have things to fear. I don't have things to panic for, but my heart plays it's own game"

"So why are you so content on burying things, you'll go insane"

"So what, so what, do I look like I care?"

"Do you? Maybe you do and you don't know how to share"

"Th...

Poetry

YA fiction

Paper Walls

Esme Calder

2 min read

Day one

Look upon the walls of my mind, and you'll see every inch crowded with words

I never learned to say,

they all line up through a filter to be counted out again and again

until the words begin

But until then

The words begin to bleed through the walls that has become paper thin

And another word is written when it may

Day two

There are stars when I close my eyes, and I watch them wh...

YA fiction

Mea Maxima Culpa

Esme Calder

1 min read

(Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa)

Just one wrong step I took, one step that cost me everything

But it was too late when the glass shattered

It was too late when the strings suddenly tightened

and suddenly no one could save me

Maybe they weren't meant to

(Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa)

Words were just words, perhaps they were never meant to be used like arrows

But I am the one who stepped into th...

Poetry

YA fiction

Mask

Esme Calder

1 min read

There was a mirror on the wall

Who I took down to play my face

Listen to each and every call

And into my face it learned to stay

If only had this been a one time thing

But instead it became twisted possession

A contest on who could last longer

Ended up becoming crippling obsession

Instead of making each other stronger

We learned to live with the crimson

Each crack became my own pain

But t...

YA fiction

Clouds

Esme Calder

1 min read

Note: poem not story

When I was little

I used to lay outside and reach my hands up to the sky above

Convinced I could touch the great moving clouds

If I just extended my arms just a little further…

I would be dropped back here

Than back in the past

Sit in the rain reaching to the gods

Instead of the clouds that swept over the lands

Although it is a warm embrace—-

Warmer than the arms I’m look...

Poetry

YA fiction

The Steps

Esme Calder

1 min read

These days come by walking through the leaves

The trees themselves fall away in the mist

Until sunlight hits my skin,

And the blood runs off my arms and off my wrists

From my hands, of my guilty trail

I stand at the jury’s mercy but yet I watch

From the woods, from the place called home

Carefully falling, down down down until the sharp

Jolt of stone

Forever should a blindfold cover my eyes

A...

Poetry

YA fiction

Nature

Esme Calder

1 min read

A silent whisper where many find beauty

Or many find fear in the murderous intent

In Mother Nature’s eyes

A wind that carries a song no one listens to

And the unheard scream of flowers on the window sill

Where we walk, where our footsteps lay unerased

Pencil marks in the sand where words become dust again

Thinking again under the sun’s heavy beating

And the winter’s harsh sting

But yet

We fi...

Poetry

YA fiction

I Wish

Esme Calder

1 min read

I want to feel, I want to know

I want to love, I want to grow

But I want to stay quiet with you on the phone

I want to be loud and laugh without stones

That weigh down my heart

And I’m unsure if you’re becoming tired

So I’m left again, back in the dark

I want to love, but I want to let go

I want you to talk, yet I want to be alone

I can’t keep the silence full

For as long as you make me sm...

Poetry

Game Of Life

Esme Calder

1 min read

I wake up sometimes with messages on my phone

But in real life.. They're not who I know

They're just someone helping me learn, and helping

me care for people who aren't making it through

Helping me see enough to get through too

So maybe I wouldn’t feel alone

So maybe the thorns would loosen around my throat

And maybe my heart would take a rest

But the messages begin to pile up

And I stand ...

Poetry

YA fiction