Writing Prompt

You make me feel horrible

A constant itch

that no matter how much I scratch

how much skin I rub off

It’s still there

I am learning

I’m not wrong for asking

You are supposed to be a mentor

Someone I can go to

But I can’t feel farther away

You think I’m a problem

that after two weeks

I should know

You make me feel foolish

all the time

Time never passes so slowly

as when I’m with you

———

(As yo...

from the first time to the next

i would forget myself

and drift on unquestioning

inoffensively

not recognizing my own face

people come and go

the cues began to blur and fade

i was the loneliest person alive

and time had never passed so slowly...

Don’t force yourself into a period of waiting.

Time will never pass as slowly.

We are told it comes when not expected,

Consequently using our time misdirected.

What it really means is wait enough time and something will happen.

Go out and take action,

Or sit, hopelessly awaiting a reaction.

Don’t let things come to you,

Go and get what you want.

Someday you’ll have no time left for stalling,

An...

I had a wonderful life.

My parents pride and joy —

I danced on marble floors and played elaborate instruments others my age couldn’t afford to touch.

Without the stress of kid,

My mom gleefully spent time with me:

I looked forward to the 1 hour every day.

With all my material

The ring was soon sitting on my bedstand and

I had my own child.

He screamed and yelled so I

Locked him until he w...

She couldn’t break the feeling. The feeling of the unknown. The answers she’d never receive.

The pain. The emptiness. It consumed her.

She isn’t the same person. She’s cold. Less human.

It was just one moment in time. One moment that changed everything.

She was lost in a world. A world that would never be the same.

Frozen, wishing she could go back.

Time has never passed so quickly.

Ti...

I sat and wait by my phone

Every ping sets of a ring in my ear

For me to find out it wasn’t you,

The one I wait for so patiently.

That’s the day I found out I was nothing.

It hurts how my absence doesn’t

bother you all, all I can do is hope for

you to call.

That’s the day I remembered i was nothing.

This time, the ring in my ear was from

a deadly silence that I crave to escape.

My mere exi...

Time had never passed so slowly

Watching the clock

Hours go by

No notice of what’s to come

I watch as the doctors come and go

Yet no response, not one

I wonder if my thoughts are correct, but I try to be hopeful and still

The smell of the newly disinfected floor hit my nose like a shock of lightning

Stomp

Stomp

Those were the words I heard before the doctor came in

The doctor let out a lou...

Time had never passed so slowly

The leaves had slowly fallen off the trees

The bright hues a stark contrast to the muddy gravel that lay on the ground

The clouds drifted

The sun setting ever so slowly

The fridge opening and closing every few minutes

The sound of empty bottles piling in the trash

Maybe if she remained still he wouldn’t notice

She never dared to turn around

To gaze at anything but...

The ball bounced into her hand

Like magnets to their oppisites

The player zoomed

As if she had no limits

The basket came closer

To the player and the ball

The time was ticking

20 seconds, 10 seconds

She jump-stopped

And shot the ball

Time had never passed so slowly...

The day that she was born,

Was the best day of my life.

This perfect little fawn,

The best gift from my wife.

We watched her crawl, we watched her walk,

Learn to babble, then begin to talk.

Our hearts were bursting out with pride.

But then a crash — and she died.

Our hearts were shattered into bits,

Just like the car, the impact hits.

No more smiles, no more laughs,

No more diapers, no more bar...