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I stare into a mirror as my reflection begins to disappear It twists and it turns It's beginning to morph Morph into my biggest fear I can't look away and can't run or hide As it draws me near and I scream with tears I bang my head and watch the blood drip down along my body ... - Poetry > Free VerseSometimes I just think that my life is worth nothing For silence is my only friend And to everyone around me, I'd be better dead So I often sit and wait for the grim reaper Maybe he'll want to be my best friend...
- Poetry > Free VerseSomedays I just wish that my life would just pass I could be hit by a bus Struck by lightning Or fall into a coma that I'd never wak up from Many days I just sit in the corner Banging my head against the wall Till I'm dizzy and numb can that coma please come...
- Poetry > Free VerseI walk along this beach For I am lost with no one coming to find me For there is no one who sees me lost For all they care I've disappeared And they finally have one less care The burden of me lifts from their feet and they can finally move on without me For they no longer care and that ...
- Poetry > Free VerseTimes are fading as my ripped jeans turn to threads And I've been waiting for that call that never came Ending what I had with you, I never thought would be so hard But life goes on and I'll find someway to survive I've got a job, I've got a new man, yet I see, he...
- Poetry > Free VerseMesmerizing The gold glittering Sparkling Draws me in With its strong gravitational pull My legs become week And are swept out from under me As I'm being dragged Floating across a shuffle of people A crowd of people Looking Glancing Staring Gawking I let my arms become w...
- Poetry > Free VerseIt floats across the starry night skies Soaring higher and higher Creating intricate dances As it sways with the wind Becoming weightless Magical...
- Poetry > Free VerseAn intricate design Hidden beauty within Smeared and splattered with color I call it a painting And you call it your life story...
- Poetry > Free VerseWhat's wrong with me? Why can't I see? See all the things That they all see? They talk there talk Walking there walk While I lay dumbfounded And confused It's a normal life they live Yet seems surreal for me They are teens Who act like teens Then look at me As I t...
- Poetry > Free Versemomma told me to always try my hardest and someday i was gonna make a life for myself you ain't gonna be like me she says you ain't gonna be like me you just ain't you just can't i always promised her sayin' yes ma'am and she'd sit on her white porch in her white cha...
- Poetry > Free VerseThe rush exhilarating rejuvenating as I soar through the air risking my life with every skill I do It sends chills through my body makes my heart pound and race once I skip a beat I am hooked and I become addicted so I do the skills again no matter the danger and the chance that I co...
- Poetry > Free VerseShe stares into the mirror and see's a stranger a beautiful stranger with long, thick, black eyelashes eye popping, crystal blue eyes tan skin with a gleaming white smile and blonde curly hair then she touches her hand to the strangers hand and says this isn't me but without you ...
- Poetry > Free VerseThe Pain excruciating as my brittle legs snap and bend into ways that aren't humanly possible but I don't mind the pain I endure it I learn to love it Until I become addicted Until I crave the feeling of my legs as they become numb and turn to jello...
- Poetry > Free VerseI see the way they look at her As they hold her in their arms Leaning in to give her a kiss I see it in the hallways at school In all the romantic movies And pretty much everywhere I go Then I look into the mirror and see me Lonely, forgotten, ugly me The only one with out a boyfriend or...
- Poetry > Free VerseRemember the days When we were still young And you picked us up in your arms And rocked us back and forth Shushing us and singing Until we fell asleep? Remember the days When we began to grow And we gave you a hug Telling you we'd miss you As you loosened your grip, letting us be o...
- Poetry > Free VerseA woman's perfect night clothed in a white dress none are blue with matching glass slippers none gleam with extravagance and color or flame with flowing red all look the same with no polka dots no stripes or lines none expressive none different but dull the same as their mothers was ...
- Poetry > Free VerseLife's falling apart all around me One thing goes wrong Then the next thing I try to hold on I try to make things right But everything is tearing at the seams I can't figure it out I can't save myself One wrong turn Then another When's it gonna end When can I p...
- Poetry > Free VerseTangled vines and branches entwine all around me As my journey has just begun and I now walk into the wild I have now isolated myself from the world Getting my first taste of nature and spending my time soul searching I take in the beauty of it all as I take this time to relax I listen to the...
- Poetry > Free VerseGreen is the color of grass Or so I've been told Blue is the color of the sky Yeah, yeah, I've heard that one before And this This shirt I wear today Why, it's yellow I already know And the sun is yellow too And this, this is new I don't know what color it may b...
- Poetry > Free VerseAs her gray colorless eyes squint toward the sky, she prays to the heavens She imagines what the reds, oranges and purples of the sky must look like as the sun sets Then they come, following her like the paparazzi, never leaving her alone They point and snare while they pound her with questions, ...
- Poetry > Free VerseRed is for stubbornness, the flushed cheeks, the teary eyes: The drops of blood, that red of poison; Ruby's, the red of man's sinful touch; The red of cherry's and apples, the red stain it imprints among tongues; The red wrath of a spur of the moment decision; The beauty of red, ...
- Nonfiction > Personal ExperienceWe've lived on Omaha street since I can remember or as my neighbors like to call it, Obama street. There are many memories from here as new neighbors come and go. Some staying years and others just for the time being. Omaha is a small cul-de-sac of about 15 houses. Right smack dab in the middle...
- Fiction > Realistic FictionIt's their secret and they won't tell anybody else. Until they leave on Thursday. That's when they'll tell my brother the secret and then he'll tell me. Four houses down in the tacky lime green house lives Zack, Sarah and Luke Richards. Zack's five years older, Sara...
- Poetry > Free VerseNegativity They call it a lifestyle choice And that you could be positive if you tried It's something you control And you will always have full power over your attitude But I tell them that their wrong Negativity is more then that It is a sickness a horrible sickness with no medic...
- Poetry > Free VerseI sit, my frostbitten toes soaked with blood. Is this my karma? My destiny? Perhaps a coincidence? Or is it only a dream? An old shriveled up women, A delicate thing, sits beside me at my death bed. She whistles a tune on her old metal harmonica. --Hunny! Hunny-- She began to sing, --Life...
