We never really know people do we?

We know ourselves, but then we do something we’d say we’d never do.

We know our friends, but then they do something we think they’d never do.

We know our family, but then they do something they say they’d never do. Continue reading “Do we? by Sasha Lewis” →

I stand at the foot of Daddy’s bed

rubbing his pale, cold feet in rhythm

breathing deep and slow

willing him to take my breath

and my energy.

Imagining his scarred lungs

taking in my air,

I close my eyes

ignoring the beeping monitor,

the gurgling tubing

the insidious hiss

of 72 liters of oxygen. Continue reading “Daddy by Laura Lindsay” →

Bouquets of roses decorate my face

When your face turns ugly with expression

My little heart can no longer keep pace

You are stabbing me and I bleed passion

Cologne waves of peppermint kiss my nose

Your fragrance swallows me and I am lost Continue reading “One Sided Love by Evangeline Bryant” →

My youth is falling,

Down with the colored leaves.

The smell of pecan pie

will wish me happy birthday

I’ll float on the aroma of Thanksgiving,

and visualize what

my new life

will bring to me.

I loath you.

I curse you.

I murder you.

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By

Step. Continue reading “Dear Acne by Evangeline Bryant” →