Writing Prompt

Your compassion always gave me joy

and your authenticity used to give me joy.

Let’s celebrate this life as bitter

even if we were never bitter.

I never really wanted a break

and I knew my heart was going to break

when you finally fall

it was always season of fall.

When high was going your spririt

high was I going on spirit....

You whispered softly that you’d always stay,

But then you left and slowly moved away.

The nights we shared now feel like a dream,

Fading like whispers carried far away.

We held each other under stars so bright,

Now those same stars seem so far away.

In every crowd, I still hear your voice,

Calling my name, but it’s too far away.

I loved you deeply, more than I could say,

Now I’m left longing f...

Hydrus’s face, gone**_

_**His entire race, gone

His kingdom’s he once tried to keep safe, gone

His husband with good tastes, gone

The simple joys he once embraced, **_gone

_**

To them him alive, he must survive

To keep away the lies, he must survive

To preserve their fights, he must survive

For them to be remembered, he must survive

To do anything worth while in this life, he must survive...

Life does not begin with birth nor end in death

But stretches, if remembered, beyond all death

Love shines, a gemstone in the settings of our heart

The one thing that lasts indefinitely, even after death

Every time we close our eyes, do we leave this plane?

And when we sleep, is it a departure, a tiny death?

Do not remember me for my attributes, not my beauty,

But for my actions, the legacy I l...

If your heart was never mine, then why did you let me claim it?

My love for you burned so brightly, I’m still trying to contain it.

You said you love me. Was it ever real? Or did you fake it?

Did you intend, from the very start, to take my heart and break it?

I used to hope your heart was just sleeping, and that I could awake it,

But then your actions spoke the truth, Now I can’t mistake it.

...

In the quiet of the evening, I whisper your name into the night,

With every longing in my soul, I search for you in the night.

The moon above, a silent witness to the tears that I have cried,

Each drop a memory of love, a pearl gleaming in the night.

The stars, they write our story across the canvas of the sky,

A tale of love that once burned bright, now lost within the night.

In dreams, I feel...

i don’t kno what a ghazal or a couplet is .so i’ll just put sumthing .

i miss the hugs ,the way you glanced over at me from youre books .

the way you laughed and hit my shoulder .the first time i saw you cry ,my heart fell .

i remember it so good .how your checkered nails were in my back .you stepped on my toes to .in the black shoes you had on

i remember closing my eyes while i held you .you...

I miss you both everyday;

I think about you everyday.

I’ve watched you grow from afar,

You both grew little by little everyday.

I know that you are better with them,

I remember changing your diapers everyday.

I wasn’t the brother I should of been,

when we meet again - I will tell you that I love you everyday.

Until that day comes, I will pray.

I’ll pray that one day I will see your faces...

I can be driving to work or walking the dog

And that song will stop me dead

Flashbacks of a summer love, lost

Your smile, our dreams, dead

And it for a moment the regret overwhelms

I can barely think, breathe, inside I’m dead

And I hope you’re happy since I couldn’t make you that way

Took your heart and mangled it, wrangled it dead

Didn’t love myself enough to love you

I hope she loves you u...

In my dream we were at the lake again.

Consumed by the sunset’s red wake again.

The world in your eyes reflected the sky

but mine were opaque again,

they swallowed the light, then your eyes, and then you,

and I knew that I had made a mistake again.

The milky way stretched their glittering arms

and said that you weren’t mine to take again.

I was lost in this mirror without your g...