It’s a slow burn, as you walk into reality. Into the fact that life just isnt what it seems. The gut punch that sends away all of the dreams you kept so sacred as a kid. You hope and try to bid that life will go the way you want. But life just taunts. When you’re young and free, all you see are sunshine and rainbows. Not the shitty way the wind blows, trying to rip you every which way. Praying all...

The thought sends a shiver down my spine, aching down my body, the start of a neverending fever. The everlasting chills that cause my body to go stiff as my mind reels and tries to heal from the image of you. It tears and eats away at the soul, leaving nothing but a dark hole. The hole that held the most sacred times, clouded by the judgement of one’s troubled mind. My chest tightens from the angu...

I imagined my childhood as I stood, my memories engraved in the patterns on the wood. Those planks that make up our house, that now sits empty and alone, haunted by those without a home. The wood creaks and aches as the wind blows, whistling through the cracks, hoping someone will come back. I walk forward feeling along the stair rail, the urge to bail rising as I continue with each step. The stai...

I saw a shadow flow by like a whisper in the cold breeze, hitting along the trees, making its dusty gray mark. I light a match to bring forward the light only to see shadows dancing from side to side, tree to tree, asking to be set free from the torment, I stand, frozen, unable to make the shadows disappear but they’re engraved in my mind. I close my eyes hoping they’ve left me behind but to no a...