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  The Condemned Word

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Religion. Yes, see the fear in your eyes, the disgust and the immediate recoil as you hear the accursed, blessed word. Religion. Oh how you instantly know just how weak I am because of this word I live by daily, and how I love it. Oh how you hate it. Religion. Something whi...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Can You Save Me?

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Stay still. Do you hear that? Leave me to my own devices, my own unholy whims. If you take one more step towards me, it might mean the end for us both. I cannot take this tension, this divine, unnatural connection. Don’t trust me, as I burn against you, taught to hate you and you I. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unable To Be Loved

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  When it seems like all the world is awake, I am dreaming. When it seems like everyone is loud, I am silent. When it seems like you’re the only one, Here I am. Nobody knows who I am. It takes more than sharp words to hurt me, it takes love. The deepest form of malice and trickery, fro...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  There Are No Heroes

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  I think it’s safe to say that I’m no hero. My whole life I’ve spent waiting for one of my own. For someone to come along and sweep me off my feet, to be that Robin Hood kind of guy. A rebel— Unsatisfied with society and what life has always offered. Hatred, pain, war. And I th...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Freedom

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  I once lived inside a cage, and people told me I could fly. ? So I tried that—flying— and guess what? It was a lie. ???? For the bars were not made of mere, thin metal, ? and the key lie yards away, in the hand of the devil. ??? ? He told me I would surely die, if he let m...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Rabbit Hole

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  I’m in a strange land, a sad place. If I stay here much longer I swear I might fall, from this precarious height, to a world with no end, or beginning, one untraveled by Imagination itself. Alice, even though she too fell, asleep, was led down her own rabbit hole, now I mine. Yes, I...
• Poetry > Ballad
  The Painting

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  It’s a long time coming when it passes by, And always makes me smile. These colors talk, and a story unfolds, And is told after a while. Some say it doesn’t mean much, but to me It’s speaks beyond its canvas. I like the way it’s mysterious and flawed, So undeniably careless. It d...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Self-Destruction

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  The flames begin, Licking their fiery wrath up my arms. I let them come and bid them good morning, A welcome distraction From all the pain and the loss of this fine Mourning. The pain slips from my fingers in a broken Way, As rain slips from the clouds unbidden. But the tears did not abate ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Should-Have-Beens

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  This takes time, But I hate how you look at me, As if every time I kiss you, I bite you, And every time I let you in, I trap you. Well if you want so badly to leave, Leave, And stop kissing me back like you care, And then Maybe we will see the truth, that with every Lie Comes another l...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  The Fey

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Oftentimes it came, as an unforeseen trick. A faerie, so pretty, yet evil and sick. Beautiful things, they come with a price, Their tricks will leave you frozen like ice. Once you believe them, once you have seen, You realize your folly, well Fate is mean. It’s not really your fault, ...
• Opinion > Spirituality / Religion
  The World Needs A Hero

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  The world needs a hero, it’s waiting with bloody wounds for a savior. Those who deny the truth of this statement have met their first folly. They believe in a lie, in the lie that this world is all there is and that there is no higher Evil, nor any higher Good. So they simply do not believe that t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hit Me, I'll Burn You

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  You hit me and I fall, lying cold on the ground, unable to fight back. You think you know what it takes To hurt me, Yet I rise again as an ever-changing flame. I never die out, but you say I burn you, Well I might do that But you touched me and that’s the price you pay. It was not okay. ...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Another Kind of Vampire

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  You rip my heart out, And laugh and drink what's left of My long-trampled love....
• Poetry > Ballad
  Ripple Affect: Do You See Your Own Distorted Reflection?

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  She walked along the sea, tossing pebbles without thought. He was far in the distance, but closing fast, an enlarging dot. "Why do you throw them as you do?" He asked the girl at last. She turned to eye him warily, and murmured, "Why worry about the past?" He stoo...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  One Day and Then Another

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  She walked in gray, in a world where people left and laughter died as soon as it began. She trudged through the days like they were years, and left a handful of rainbows along the way. One of them was January 19th, 2004, the day she first kissed a boy. For a moment sparks flew, and her heart k...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  True Colors

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Lying through my teeth, I watch as they whisper secret things, About me. And wonder why I'm stuck in this rut where all the lies have smothered me, They've covered me. And the only one who knows me is everyone but me, because through all these lies, My true colors shine Dully...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Indifferent Abandon

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  I can’t feel this numbness spreading, I only know it’s there. See its mark crawling up my arms, The black and blue I wear. Vast in its own emptiness, The cold seeps through my veins. You think I’d fight to stay alive, By now I’m cast in chains. I’m trembling with shame and pain...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Stifled

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  I cry and you become a pressing cloth, dipped in poison, soaked in lies. My sobs become strangled, robbed of sound, while you construct my thorn-felt, wretched guise. You want them to see me not as I am, you treat me as your reflection. But I’m not opposed to wonton destr...
• Poetry > Ballad
  A Dangerous Game

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  It's cold where I keep all my shame. It's hard to play a losing game. I don't feel much, I don't cry. I won't help you, I'll let you die. And that's okay, and that's alright. I won't love you out of spite. But can't you he...
• Opinion > Spirituality / Religion
  Label Me Pagan

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  I walk through the doors and immediately they slap a name tag on me. Already I've been labeled. What if I wanted to be seen as The Amazing Jo instead of just "hey, I'm Jo?" Being average, I mean, who wants that? But I walk in these doors and they assume they know me better for my...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  You Carried the Cross I Wear

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Lightning struck the earth in a beautiful array, a vast and marvelous display. And the trees bent toward each other, meeting in humble embrace to the ground. Withered, they created a path to the sky — a hill — a mound. And all the people threw their hands up to cover it all, your mounta...
• Poetry > Ballad
  There's A Story Behind Every Hard Heart

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  It’s the blackest heart that was burned the most, It’s the hardened soul of a long-lost ghost. The tortured cry of an old man came, The wind carried sorrow and pain untamed. I hated the sound of his labored breaths, The regret that it invoked so close to death. It’s the blackest he...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fragile Me, and You

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Chase after me. And maybe after a while I'll let you catch me. Catch me, love. And maybe soon I'll let you see me. Look at me. I am waiting for you, have always just been waiting, waiting for you to care. See me. Don't just stare, know me. And maybe someday I can return your ga...
• Opinion > Spirituality / Religion
  What Hatred Can Do

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  Regret gripped my heart in a tight fist that would not be abated by reason. Pressed between the minuscule spaces in my heart, those which were not crushed entirely, was a deep void, unfathomably dark. Not deep enough to hide in, yet — not enough time had passed spent in such sorrow — but certain...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Transgressions

  

  By Jade.I.Am, Fishers, IN

  It's dark. The moon just barely shines through the canopy of leaves above, daring me to look for more than a glimpse of light... as though if I try I might be swallowed up by the darkness entirely. The light mocks me. It is not my friend, it never has been. Except that it's cold, now,...