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  My Value, My Self-Worth

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  My value is worth more. Don’t pride yourself in disdaining me. We say we don’t let other people affect how we feel; we don’t let their opinions affect our own vision of ourselves. We try so hard to believe what we say, but sometimes they get the upper hand. There’s a crack, a flaw in the mi...
• Opinion > Points of View
  Tasting the Rainbow

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  Trick-or-Treaters make their way back home, trudging through the grass with their arms laden with hoarded candy, a signal to the end of a successful Halloween night. Amidst those satisfied trick-or-treaters are my brother, my neighbor, and I, whispering plans to trade candy amongst ourselves. After ...
• Opinion > Love / Relationships
  Flirting with Success, Flirting with Failure

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  We flirt when we want to show someone affection. We flirt when we want attention. We flirt because flirting lays the foundation to any relationship. But flirting techniques differentiate just as people’s personalities differentiate and successfully form a relationship depending on the technique (a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hope?

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  I reach out a hand into the darkness and grasp for something. Anything. Something to hold onto, something to hold me steady. Something that will stop this madness. I won't believe it. I don't want to believe it. But it's there. You're gone. Gone like the morning sun...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  "Hold your head high, gorgeous"

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  It's a spinning, spinning circle; You promised yourself you wouldn't get involved. Not again, and definitely not like this. Yet the tempting siren begs you to heed its call. Either way, it's a dead end trap. And you're caught up in something that you had no intention of b...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Butterflies

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  You're my sparkling diamond (no, not like Moulin Rouge because she died) But still, you're that rare "gleam of sunshine" in my life You're that first shining star in the sky that everyone yearns to make a wish on Or better yet, that rare shooting star that streaks across ...
• Opinion > Love / Relationships
  Diamonds Are Forever

  

  By xLyss, Jacksonville, FL

  The gentle strums of a guitar accompany the soft croons of a woman’s voice singing of her desire to express her love toward her significant other; however, she states her failure to do so since she “can’t find the right words to say.” A man wakes up early Christmas morning, sneaks downstairs...