It started with a seed

A little seed you gave to me

It was so small, so round in my hand

I could have never expected it to end

We planted it together

You and I

We watched it grow

And we planted more in rows

You smiled

And I didn’t

Your hands were full of hope

While, the darkness in me, I tried to cope

We sat together

You and I

Upon the swingset you built me

Where we could hold hands and watch ...

I kept a rose bush

Over the hope I meet you soon

Darkness met your tomb as I close your box

I drop a rose and it’s stain with dirt

My tears flow and water the dry dirt

Oh, if I could carve you off that dirt

I kept a rose bush

So I lean in and smell it when it blooms

I care about it when ride the street we fight through

I cry over the times I met your soul

My God knows I still think of...

In the quiet garden of memory, where shadows embrace the light,

A rose blooms in solitude, its petals soft and bright.

It stands amid the darkness, a symbol of our love,

A whisper of the beauty that now soars above.

Hope was the gift you gave me, in every tender word,

A promise like the morning, when the first sweet chirps are heard.

You were the gentle sunrise, that chased away my night,

A beaco...

Darkness fills my eyes

Hoping to see you again

Roses on the tomb

Tessa🦋...

Oh, that I could have but one night free of nightmares,

But alas, I believe my heart to have surrendered hope,

My soul to have been tainted by the shadows of despair.

For I have lost a friend.

Ever the brave soldier,

You were not afraid of the darkness.

Fitting to fate's affinity for irony,

As it is now I that endures the depths of gloom

Faced with but one truth that will outlast us all

That what...

There will come a day

When they’re not so young and free

They will be old and decayed

Bound by chains of death, you see

But for now let them play

With one another

Because soon it won’t be that way

They’ll be without each other

Teach them to hold onto the hope

Because overtime it will fade

Teach them to hold on to that rope

Because soon it will be frayed

Let them live, love, laugh

Let them catch...

I wake up one day with no memory to be found

I look down and see blood all around

All I can do is hope for the best

But as I look around its just emptiness,

And darkness and I start to get stressed

As I walk around trying to escape.

I end up in the same place

I recognize a familiar face

He is holding a rose, a red rose for that matter

But as I get closer it would start to glow

But it'...

I was your hope but I let you down

No remorse as they laid you down

So much more I could have done

My Lord knows I should have done

The answers escape me once again

Overwhelmed by indecision once again

I rose today expecting change

I sleep tonight expecting change

Will I wake the man they hoped for

Or with the peace I always hoped for

Leaving the darkness behind me

Never again looking b...

Pink fabric enrobed

Blue lines pages

Marked with a rose colored satin ribbon

Yellow legal pads

Erupting with tight cursive arcs

Of the characters in her head

Brown skinned girl bent over a book

Sheltered in her closet

Escaping into technicolor worlds

To world building in shades of her own

Hope rose from darkness

But

Little girls grow up

Big dreams overshadowed, left fallow

Buried

Beneath ...

When hope was all gone

For a miracle cure

The darkness descended

And enveloped my world.

Your battle was over

You fought ever so valiantly

But to live a long life

Was not your destiny.

I withered away

In your absence I sank

Deeper into grief

And completely lost myself.

Into a cavernous hole

I fell all alone with the pain

My limbs unwilling, unable

To claw my way out.

I stayed fo...