Writing Prompt

He threw things at me

Once again

During his diper change

When he wasnt supposed to

I once again

Told you

About it

Like I always fo

And you

Once again

Ignored every word

that left my mouth

I went into the family room

While my dad was in the kitchen afterwards

And picked up everything he threw

And said loudly that he threw it at me. Ignored

I tell you things about my stroies

My drawings and ...

When you look at me,

I don’t know what to think.

Are you laughing, are you judging,

Are you just saying hi?

When you look at me,

What do you see?

A happy, loving girl,

Or an ugly freak?

When you laugh at me,

Or say that I’m not worth it,

It hurts inside,

It _hurts. _

__

__

And I don’t know what to believe.

Am I the useless scrap you say I am?

Or am I _more_

__

Than the mold you try and force m...

It was always out of reach,

Never quite close enough to grasp,

But I am now there....

I told myself I’d work on it today

Why am I always to disobey

My mind that is

That prefers to act like a kid

Always sitting around in a slump

Someone needs to tell her not to be so lump

It’s been days or months, I think

Her motivation is starting to shrink

I’ve managed to begin the task

But the rest is just too much to ask

Maybe tomorrow, if I’m free

I’ll get to work and pay my fee

I’ve becom...

_Happiness…_

__

_Are you_

_Really out there?_

__

_Will I_

_Ever find you?_

There’s a

Thousand-pound weight

On my chest,

Holding me back

From doing my best.

It pulls my hand back

When I’m about to grab yours,

Happiness,

I need your hands,

Your warmth.

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_Happiness?_

__

_Call out to me,_

_Please…_

Though even if you did,

I wouldn’t hear you,

For it covers my ears too.

_Happiness?_

__

_If I scre...

love.

just out of reach.

you see it from across the room,

across the lake,

down the train.

but just out of reach.

and you never see that love again.

but here comes another one!

the opportunity passing on the street,

in the airport,

or on the beach.

but then it’s gone again.

just out of reach.

there’s another one!

and this time it stays around for a while.

hanging around just long en...

Amidst the veils of existence,

I’ve crafted dreams that seem attainable,

Yet,

Each time I strive,

it seems I grasp at the edge of my own undoing,

We slumber beneath the stars' embrace,

Toil with fervor as the sun ascends,

A rhythm unchanging,

A life in familiar refrain…

In the quest for triumph in this realm, Others may seek to cast your dreams into shadow,

Yet,

be the beacon that pie...

I’m just a 14 year old girl

Who doesn’t really understand the world

Maybe I see through a different lense

Or a different looking glass all together

There are plenty of things in this world

That i do understand

How everyone seems to have their right hand man

Except for the lonely and broken

How people in power

Deatroy the people

Who hold the peices

Keeping their lives afloat

I understand

The...

Pits of mist that steal his wits,

Warring worlds that churn beyond.

Fingers reach, but merely linger—

Too deep he sinks within the pond.

Reaching out to grasp and hold

A branch of brown, decayed with mold.

It twists and lifts—he stays adrift,

Straining, groaning, fighting cold.

A land of sand surrounds the man.

He tries, he cries, the waters rise—

His neck, his mouth, his nose, his eyes.

His gr...

Indeed it is hard to find a job these days

The good jobs are so out of reach

Proving our skills on our resume

And rehashing what we learned in our past that no one can be able to un teach

Blooming like a flower in the springtime

Growing up and updating our mental and physical knowledge

We seem to want to lack searching for something that seems too easy

That is our pride and it’s our ...