Writing Prompt

Lifting heavy weights

Always looking perfect

Being happy all the time

These are seen as strong

However that’s not true strength

True strength is being brave

Asking for help from others

Knowing it’s ok not to be perfect

Being selfish sometimes

Crying when you need to

Overcoming challenges

Everyone has true strength

They just need to believe in them

And they can do anything...

Hearts beats quiet like the night it fell apart

I don’t think I have it in me to ever restart

The pain it grips at me like my enimies

Its talons dig into my soul

It overwhelms my senses

And I lose all control

Life plays out on the back burner

Immune to all feelings

As the world fades out

I don’t see a straight line

Or the passing of time

Nothing feels like love anymore

Not since the world cave...

They say that you can get as high as you like

But that doesn’t cover up what bites

The bruises on your skin are paper thin

Don’t avert your eyes from me

We used to be friends

I can tell that you wage war within

Hiding from me now like you do with everyone else

And I missed your text today

I guess life isn’t as fair as they say

Let it all out it’s okay

The emotional damage is only temporary

I know...

We hold together

Sewed tight

Held upright

Ready to fight

Deep beneath

The harsh waves

There are always

Peaceful caves

Deep under the violent sea

Stands human, you and me

With coral bursts

Of color and thought

Away from the worst

With sparkles and dots

A flame that sparks

And makes us special

Something unique

The gas pedal

The creativity

And thought behind every move

Lives here

Deep in the vast...

I am tired

Lord am I tired

Pushing the same tire up a mountain

But it’s flat and

The slope is steep

And the aching numbed

Bones in my feet

But I will persevere

What’s fueling me

Is the strength in my heart

When it’s buried deep

I am thankful for this suffering

Obsession with the process

Trekking up this mountain

Is an honest testing of my conscience

For every time I strive for mo...

Sapphires ricochet off slate

Magic swallowed by endless grey

A path cut clear for all to see

I’ll follow it to the end.

Bright smiles fade at ashen walls

Gold light cracked by the length it falls

Unfazed by sorrow, bliss and fear

Stands steady, my heart of stone....

Wake up and go to sleep tired

Keep emotions bottled up

Afraid to let them show

When will be enough

Nobody ever knows

That’s what they let you think

But it’s actually when

Your emotions are on the brink

It’s quite horrible by then

Like a kettle of tea

About to explode

You just have to be strong

And push agaisnst it

Not letting it go

When will be enough

I know someone has to know...

When the poetry’s too loud

When the words seep in my bones

When sorrow tugs and scrapes my heart

I gag and stifle a wretched moan

I look up

Watch raindrops coat the window glass

I find one making it’s way down fast

I let it guide me as it slides past

The others that stand too still

And in its motion I can breathe

A drop in the ocean

A wave breaks over a reef

And in the break I find reli...

I am

So tired

Of

Taking

It

One

Day

At

A

Time

When

I’ve

Been

So tired

Of

Being tired

And

The day

After

The next

Still

Isn’t

Better

I am tired

Of my head being so

Loud

But my thoughts so

Empty

I’m tired

And

I

Can’t

I

Just

Cannot

Look

For the light

At the

End

Of the

Tunnel

When

All

I

Want

Is to

Hide away

In the dark...

They called her an iceberg, frosty and insincere

Forever scheming behind a polished veneer

Eyes sharper than an iceberg’s pointy tip

Speech shallow and detached spilled from her lips.

Pale and pristine, untouched by pain or despair

Aloof and cruel, with her blank, icy stare

Merely drifting along in life’s cold sea

Alone and unloved, she would forever be.

Not once did they think she was barel...