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  Baby Bird

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  Baby bird learning to fly. Baby bird was born just to die. Mother bird finally letting him free. Mother bird's dreams - shattered - of all he could be. Baby bird soaring high. Flitting and fleecing across the baby blue painted sky. Mother bird watching with pride. As her baby bird...
• Fiction > Romance
  Just Friends...Unfortunately.

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  It's raining outside. And the wind is howling, as if it's some sort of deranged wolf. It makes me think of malapropisms. And the fact that this is a kind of sound malapropism. Confusing the sound of the wind for a werewolf, instead of the sound of words. But I'm rambling. I can...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I've Been Thinking

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  I’m pregnant… Yes, this caught your attention. A negative connotation, When attached to my generation, Startles a nation. But I’m pregnant with an idea. Something that could lead me to greatness. But I may have to shed some past people and old habits. The afterbirth ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Mother Dearest

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  You’re constricting my throat. It’s already hard enough to evoke, All these feelings of dismantled hope, Without you taking the rope, Of authority and tying me up. Enough is enough. Your voice it’s piercing And stinging as venom. Freedom is my only plea. Freedom fro...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Am Wind

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  I’m just like the wind. You can’t see me but I’m right there. Fighting for your attention. Howling above everything. Or a simple whisper in your ear. I move through the cracks, Easily unseen. The ability to have my presence known, But go unnoticed by every human being. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Future

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  The threat of you looms over my shoulders Undeniably there. My fears of you finally catching up to me sometimes can not be contained I dread the day you finally arrive and I am unprepared because I know within myself I have made little preparations. Your stealth mirrors a thief in the night. An...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Born To Break

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  The darkness comes drifting through. Settling upon my heart like the morning dew. My salty tears are futile, few, And I think the color to describe this should be darker than blue. Corners are my refuge, I seek them to think Because this darkness becomes an ocean And in it, I'm starti...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Need Someone

  

  By Shayne, Freeport, Bahamas

  I feel so alone and no one understands. Is it because they don't try or is it because they can't? I sit on my back porch and the wind caresses my face. I imagine the touch of God, comforting me, trying to keep me in place. I hope daily for an angel of empathy. Just brimming with unde...