Is Anyone Listening?

Is Anyone Listening? Another teen killed himself today…do you hear the crying? It isn’t from his family, wondering what else could have been done? It isn’t from the so-called left wing, mourning the lost voice of change. It isn’t from the so called right, crying out that a deviance was the murderer. He didn’t make … Continue reading Is Anyone Listening?

I Might Not Be Home Tonight

Do we truly know what it means to be our own person? Or are we all yearning for something that only seems to exist in sitcoms and movie screens? I walked away from everything that I knew, everything that I was comfortable with, because I couldn’t answer the questions that were tearing my heart apart. … Continue reading I Might Not Be Home Tonight

Showing

Showing It twinkles, despite it being too dark, light filtering through dust that is only seen because it hangs suspended in the rays of the faded bulb only a few feet away, it shines as it slowly trails between coarse hairs and reddish-brown scarred skin that refuses to turn white like its brothers and sisters. what … Continue reading Showing

Hurt Me Today

It broke crumbled pieces lay in shaking hands that for too long forgot what it meant to hold softly it cracked, slowly at first with tiny sounds echoing as gravity pulled it down to soon-to-be cement floors, hardening quietly it splintered, tracing intricate patterns across once smooth valleys, now dried into graying deserts littered with … Continue reading Hurt Me Today