You taught me guitar

Then pushed me in the street

You picked me up and then

You told me I should leave

I knew it then

But then forgot

That I should listen to you

Instead of my heart...

I know it.

Whether you can see him or not.

I feel his eyes on me… there! He just whispered to me… did you hear it??? Right THERE he’s looking at me… I Can see him from the corner of my eyes… always taunting me! Mocking… chiding …. Assailing with his threats. Always embarrassing… always shaming… always there.

He licks the tunnels of my ears and sandpapers my lips. Can’t tell which words are his ...

The words my mother says to me

Pass right my by my ears

The only sounds ringing through my head

Are my tireless fears

My back does ache, my feet are sore

The ochestra playing’s quite the bore

The girls around me flutter their hair

A gentleman’s staring from over there

Our eyes do meet

My heart began to sputter

Maybe I AM ready to be a mother…

😳😳...

If wishes fell like rain,

Then certainly I am a storm.

Prayers falling on deaf ears,

No one runs to help.

If wishes fell like rain,

Then perhaps I am a sapling.

At the bottom of a valley,

Drowning in the flood....

The brown fox chased the cowardly dog

They ran and ran way ‘round the log

Until the small dog seemed to trip

And so away his life would slip

The brown fox brought home their dinner

A trophy for the young and slimmer

But thus his mate eyes his feast

The atrocity made it hard to eat

Their relationship frayed

Rifts did grow

Their hearts atrophied

From the brown fox’s ego...

“But

You’re not

What

You thought

You were”*

She realized

Breathlessly

Helplessly

She had

More than

She could

Ever

Ask

She was

The

Sun.

* Liability (reprise) - Lorde...

“What’s this?” I thumbed through the old book I plucked from the attic. First the ancient symbols jumbled on the page, but slowly they began to flow into each other, painting visions that seemed to come to life off the page.

“Whoah” I couldn’t contain my wonder.

“Oh that’s my grandfathers diary. He was some conspiracy theorist I think… None of those are real hieroglyphics or anything. We have...

It’s killing me

To pretend

Every day.

To walk

And sit

And stare.

How is

Everyone here

So okay?

What is wrong

Deep inside

That I can’t be?

It all feels

So empty:

Broken promises,

Fake smiles,

Bad jokes.

To be here

Is to feel myself

Slip away.

Yet I keep

Coming back

....

“Wait up!” I heaved, running at full speed to catch up with him. “Jeremiah! Wait!”

“I’m not talking to you” He waved me away.

“Please just give me a ch-“

“I gave you a thousand chances to tell me the truth and you’re still lying to me. I’m done. I’m done! I can’t keep doing this with you, it’s killing me.” He looked done. My heart lurched at the thought of losing him.

“Please I’m so sorry I n...

I woke up today

The morning air was cold

Haven’t been sleeping in much

without you

Drank my coffee by the window

spot next to yours

Hasn’t tasted good for weeks now

Need to remember to switch brands

Need to remember to set reminders to do that

The way that you always did

I notice I’m in my head a lot now

The space we took up is now carried by only me

Our anecdotes and secret language

All now...