Approval I think of you as I go about my day. I think of you as I take opportunities that come my way. What would you say about what I am doing? What would you think about my life and how I have chosen to live it? Are you proud of what I am Daddy? Do you boast […]
Sadness You look as though the world is heavy on your shoulders. As if it is dragging down your smile to create the frown etched on your features. You sigh as if the air around you is as heavy as the burden you seem to be carrying. You’ve closed yourself off from me; a great […]
Uninspired I wonder if Shakespeare had days like this. Days where everything is so dull and uninspiring. A tree is just a tree, a breeze a simple fact of life. But that’s the problem, there is no life. Everything seems so dead and sullen. The way the light hits the earth has left it in […]
Watch me When you’re in school they tell you, you can be whatever you want to be. As you get older, more doors are slammed in your face. ‘You can be anything…maybe not that…or that.’ They put you in boxes that ‘define’ who you are. Whatever you do, don’t think outside the box, don’t step […]
Smile Beneath each smile there is a lie. Underneath each laugh there are screams. Behind my eyes I am broken. Your news weighs heavy on my heart. I can see you’re scared of how I’ll react. So I smile. I don’t think you see the pain, I don’t think you realise that what I really want is to […]
Protect There you are. The size of a grain of rice; sitting snug in the warm core of my belly. So small, hardly there, yet already you have encompassed my entire world. We are stranger and yet I would give my life to protect you. For years to come you will be sustained by me. […]
You It’s cruel really. Nature’s nasty little trick. Of all the people in the world, I had to fall for you. The one person I know (and have always known) is no good for me. You bring out the worst rather than the best. Security is a long gone dream. My mother said I don’t […]
Tick Tick, tick, tick. You glare at the clock; the one your mother brought you to make sure you got to class on time. But right now it’s just laughing at you. Tick, Tick, Tick. Angry, you turn away from it to watch your room mate. Her eyes are closed, in deep slumber. Jealousy storms […]
Todays the Day ‘Todays the day’ a voice whispers. You ignore it, curling back over into the safety of your bed. ‘Todays the day’ the voice then demands. You give into it; rolling out of the covers. You work on automatic; bumbling around your apartment, just as you have done the past month. You go to put on slippers but the voice […]
Listen Pollution can come in many forms. Perhaps the least thought of is noise. The city is never still; there is always the sounds of traffic, trains, construction and crime. The constant hum of engines. The daily beating of metal on metal; with the hourly sirens sprinkled on the top. It kept me awake when I first […]
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