Writing Prompt

I told my parents that when I grew older, I would have a chance at anything.

And for some reason, I didn’t.

My eyes shot open, my ears listening wearily for any source of sound.

Nothing.

I’d been running for almost two weeks now.

From what?

I don’t know.

But it felt like I needed to.

That if I didn’t stay still, they’d get me.

Now, my eyes couldn’t spot any light hardly, just a small...

In hell and heaven she followed,

Either it be pain or love she was helpless to his grasp,

His hold on her became so strong that even in death she hunted him,

If she could not follow him within the soil that lay under her broken nails, or her feet,

She would lay upon his casket 6 feet below in the open burial site and make it her own too.

A prick of a thorn on the side of the rose made her his...

“Im still here…”

I whisper

I’m slumped in the dirt

Listening to the world move around me

“I’m still here”

I whimper

I tilt my head up and look at the candle

It burns bright as if its never caused any harm

“I’m still here!”

I cry

The fire burns bright in my vision

His screams fill my ears, my head!

“IM STILL HERE”

I sob

I remember the night sky

Fire

It was everywhere

I couldn’t get out

I...

my life is a graveyard of buried hopes

this saying comes to mind as im laying in these depths

i cant figure out a way to pull me out and away

escaping doesnt seem possible, leaving too

because i am it, i live it each day

and sometimes i like deep water, i fight to stay here

i can never just float, although the views are maybe better

i cant because floating would be loosing the battle

i dont know ...

It’s too dark. He shouldn’t have to be in the dark. It’s scary and cold and he doesn’t deserve that.

Lighting two candles, all that I can carry, I make my way out the front door to the little family cemetery. Jack had wanted to fix it up. Said his family should spend eternity in comfort. He’d cleaned the rock wall, then all the head stones. Planting flowers all around the green plot, instead of ...

She said the darkness is my light

And this place looks so bright through the blur in my eyes

From the liquid sin that took your life

Insincerity is an underrated game of spite

Morphine hurts the more you take

Hallucinations grasp you by the throat until there’s no way to escape

Put a smile on your face

And a laugh between your lips that you can’t explain

You’re such a beautiful freak

Crows a...

A body’s nesting in a stolen grave

Counting down the hours til they cave

There is no where to go

Suffocating alone in dirt that’s laced

Allowing torture to rewire their veins

Contained in a cave below

Guided by sins that fracture the brain

Worshiping a Divine that creates slaves

But it’s all we know

Define a lane

One with streetlights that flash when you break

Drive safe, road rash is no...

My happiness to you were the key

But then you faded away

Now I am haunted by the face I’ll never see

I will never hear your laughs or cries

I will never watch you grow into the person you were meant to be

I will never feel your pain or happiness

Now that your gone from me...

At Eighty years old I’ve been to many funerals in my life .Friends ,Neighbours they all held their own sadness . But yours … yours was the worst,

The feeling of never seeing you again which I know you would hate me to say .You believed our souls would forever be intertwined and we would find eachother in every life .But I have to admit seeing you lowered into the ground and a mere stone being pl...

I’d never thought the day would come.

Where I’m visiting your grave,

Instead of your home.

You left me alone, without a farewell.

You stripped the color from my world,

The days long and bleak.

Perhaps I could have done something to help.

But, I haven’t a clue what.

Your fate was sealed the day you were born.

The memories you left behind,

Are all that keeps me motivated.

The stories and lau...